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Magic and rationality in ancient Near Eastern and Graeco-Roman medicine / edited by H.F.J. Horstmanshoff and M. Stol ; in collaboration with C.R. van Tilburg.
Penn Museum Library R135 .M335 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Studies in ancient medicine ; 27.
- Studies in ancient medicine, 0925-1421 ; 27
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medicine, Assyro-Babylonian--Philosophy.
- Medicine, Assyro-Babylonian.
- Medicine, Greek and Roman--Philosophy.
- Medicine, Greek and Roman.
- Magic.
- Practical reason.
- History, Ancient.
- Philosophy.
- Middle East.
- Greece.
- Magic--history.
- Philosophy, Medical--history.
- Medical Subjects:
- History, Ancient.
- Middle East.
- Greece.
- Magic--history.
- Philosophy, Medical--history.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 407 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2004.
- Summary:
- A study of methods in Ancient Near Eastern and Greek and Roman medicine, based on representative text corpora. Central is the question of what is "rational," or not, in the various systems.
- Contents:
- West Meets East: Early Greek and Babylonian Diagnosis / M.J. Geller 11
- An Assyriologist Reads Hippocrates / M. Stol 63
- Die 'Losung vom Bann': Uberlegungen zu altorientalischen Konzeptionen von Krankheit und Heilkunst / S.M. Maul 79
- Diagnosis, Divination and Disease: Towards an Understanding of the rationale behind the Babylonian Diagnostic Handbook / N.P. Heess 97
- How to Marry a Disease: Epidemics, Contagion, and a Magic Ritual against the 'Hand of the Ghost' / W. Farber 117
- Rationality versus Irrationality in Egyptian Medicine in the Pharaonic and Graeco-Roman Periods / R. David 133
- Minoan and Mycenaean Medicine and its Near Eastern Contacts / R. Arnott 153
- Greek Medicine and Babylonian Wisdom: Circulation of Knowledge and Channels of Transmission in the Archaic and Classical Periods / R. Thomas 175
- Divination, Prognosis and Prophylaxis: The Hippocratic Work 'On Dreams' (De victu 4) and its Near Eastern Background / P.J. van der Eijk 187
- Structure and Genesis of Some Hippocratic Treatises / V. Langholf 219
- Aphorismi 5.28-63 and the Gynaecological Texts of the Corpus Hippocraticum / A.E. Hanson 277
- Bloodletting in Babylonia / M.J. Geller 305
- 'Did the god learn medicine?' Asclepius and Temple Medicine in Aelius Aristides' Sacred Tales / H.F.J. Horstmanshoff 325
- Vindicianus' Gynaecia and Theories on Generation and Embryology from the Babylonians up to Graeco-Roman Times / L. Cilliers 343
- 'At times these ancient facts seem to lie before me like a patient on a hospital bed'-Retrospective Diagnosis and Ancient Medical History / K.-H. Leven 369.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Classes of 1883 and 1884 Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9004136665
- OCLC:
- 55600640
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