Astro-Medicine
Subtitle: astrology and medicine, East and West
By: edited by Anna Akasoy, Charles Burnett, and Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim
Series: Micrologus' library -- 25; Micrologus' library -- 25.
Publisher: SISMEL edizioni del Galluzzo; Sismel
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Firenze
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9788884503008
Subjects: Medicine; Congresses; History; Medical astrology; Astrology
Notes: Collected essays, mostly presented to the meeting of the same name, London (GB), 2005.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Abstracts in English.
Table of contents: title: Astrological medicine in Babylonia / Nils P. Heessel; title: Greek medical astrology and the boundaries of medicine / Vivian Nutton; title: Medieval Latin astrology and the cycles of life : William English and English medicine in Cambridge, Trinity College MS. O.5.26 / Hilary M. Carey; title: The debate on critical days in Renaissance Italy / Concetta Pennuto; title: The astral connections of critical days : some late antiquity sources preserved in Hebrew and Arabic / Y. Tzvi Langermann; title: Arabic physiognomy as a link between astrology and medicine / Anna Akasoy; title: Heavenly bodies in early China : astro-physiology in context / Vivienne Lo; title: Astral hermeneutics : astrology and medicine in India / Audrius Beinorius; title: A convergence of medical and astro-sciences in Indian Tantric Buddhism : a case of the Kālacakratantra / Vesna A. Wallace; title: Tibetan medical astrology / Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim; title: From Lilly to Steiner and Jung : temperament in astrology and psychology, seventeenth and twentieth centuries / Dorian Gieseler Greenbaum.