Ancient Babylonian medicine
Subtitle: theory and practice
By: Markham J. Geller.
Series: Ancient cultures
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chichester, West Sussex, UK; Malden, MA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781405126526
Subjects: Medicine, Assyro-Babylonian; Medicine, Assyro-Babylonian -- Philosophy; Medicine, Assyro-Babylonian -- Methodology; Magic, Assyro-Babylonian
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction to Babylonian medicine and magic; title: Medicine as science; title: Who did what to whom?; title: The politics of medicine; title: Medicine as literature; title: Medicine and philosophy; title: Medical training : MD or PhD?; title: Uruk medical commentaries; title: Medicine and magic as independent approaches to healing; title: Appendix: An edition of a medical commentary.