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9789004178762

Advances in Mesopotamian Medicine from Hammurabi to Hippocrates

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  • ISBN13:

    9789004178762

  • ISBN10:

    9004178767

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2009-10-01
  • Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
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Summary

This volume, which originated with a conference at the Collegrave;ge de France, comprises contributions by many of the leading researchers in Babylonian and Assyrian medicine. A wealth of topics are studied, including medical lexicography, prosopography, and technology, economic aspects of healing, and Mesopotamian influence on Greece. First-time editions of cuneiform medical tablets are presented. The volume will interest scholars in many branches of Assyriology, and also historians of Greek medicine. Contributors: Barbara Bouml;ck, Paul Demont, Jean-Marie Durand, Jeanette C. Fincke, Markham J. Geller, Nils. P. Heeszlig;el, Marten Stol, Martin Worthington

Table of Contents

Avant-proposp. VII
Abbreviationsp. XI
List of Contributorsp. XXI
Introduction: "Oeil malade et mauvais oeil"p. 1
The Babylonian Physician Rabâ-Üa-Marduk. Another Look at Physicians and Exorcists in the Ancient Near Eastp. 13
"To be ill" in Akkadian: The Verb Sal?'u and the Substantive Sili'tup. 29
Some Notes on Medical Information outside the Medical Corporap. 47
Cuneiform Tablets on Eye Diseases: Babylonian Sources in Relation to the Series DIÜ NA IGIII-Üú GIGp. 79
On Medical Technology in Ancient Mesopotamiap. 105
L'ancienneté de la médecine hippocratique: un essai de bilanp. 129
Indices
Source Indexp. 151
Akkadian and Sumerian Words Treatedp. 157
General Indexp. 159
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