Magic And Rationality In Ancient Near Eastern And Graeco-roman Medicine (Studies in Ancient Medicine)
Contributors: H. F. J. Horstmanshoff (Editor); Marten Stol (Editor); C. R. Van Tilburg (Editor)
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers; Brill; Brill Academic Pub
Published: November 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9789004136663
Subjects: Medicine: General Issues; Medical / Nursing; History: World; Ancient Rome; History; Interior Design - General; Ancient - Rome; Magic; Medicine, Assyro-Babylonian; Medicine, Greek and Roman; Philosophy; Practical reason
Description: "Medical systems of the Ancient Near East and the Greek and Roman world are studied side by side and compared. Early medicine in Babylonia, Egypt, the Minoan and Mycenean world; later medicine in Hippocrates, Galen, Aelius Aristides, Vindicianus, the Talmud. The volume focuses on the degree of "rationality" or "irrationality" in the various ways of medical thought and treatment. Fifteen specialists contributed thoughtful and well-documented chapters on important issues."--Jacket.