Book ID: CBB000651720

Magic and Rationality in Ancient Near Eastern and Graeco-Roman Medicine (2004)

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Horstmanshoff, H. F. J. (Editor)
Stol, Marten (Editor)
Tilburg, C. R. van (Editor)


Brill


Publication Date: 2004
Physical Details: xv + 407 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description Contents:


Reviewed By

Review Nutton, V. (2006) Review of "Magic and Rationality in Ancient Near Eastern and Graeco-Roman Medicine". Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology (p. 235). unapi

Includes Chapters

Chapter Geller, M.J. (2004) Bloodletting in Babylonia. In: Magic and Rationality in Ancient Near Eastern and Graeco-Roman Medicine (p. 305). unapi

Chapter Cilliers, L. (2004) Vindicianus' Gynaecia and Theories in Generation and Embryology from the Babylonians up to Graeco-Roman Times. In: Magic and Rationality in Ancient Near Eastern and Graeco-Roman Medicine (p. 343). unapi

Chapter Geller, M.J. (2004) West Meets East: Early Greek and Babylonian Diagnosis. In: Magic and Rationality in Ancient Near Eastern and Graeco-Roman Medicine (p. 11). unapi

Chapter Maul, S.M. (2004) Die “Lösung vom Bann”: Überlegungen zu altorientalischen Konzeptionen von Krankheit und Heilkunst. In: Magic and Rationality in Ancient Near Eastern and Graeco-Roman Medicine (p. 79). unapi

Chapter Farber, W. (2004) How to Marry a Disease: Epidemics, Contagion, and a Magic Ritual against the “Hand of the Ghost”. In: Magic and Rationality in Ancient Near Eastern and Graeco-Roman Medicine (p. 117). unapi

Chapter David, R. (2004) Rationality versus Irrationality in Egyptian Medicine in the Pharaonic and Graeco-Roman Periods. In: Magic and Rationality in Ancient Near Eastern and Graeco-Roman Medicine (p. 133). unapi

Chapter Leven, K.-H. (2004) “At times these ancient facts seem to lie before me like a patient on a hospital bed”---Retrospective Diagnosis and Ancient Medical History. In: Magic and Rationality in Ancient Near Eastern and Graeco-Roman Medicine (p. 369). unapi

Chapter Eijk, P.J. van der (2004) Divination, Prognosis and Prophylaxis: The Hippocratic Work “On Dreams” (De victu 4) and Its Near Eastern Background. In: Magic and Rationality in Ancient Near Eastern and Graeco-Roman Medicine (p. 187). unapi

Chapter Langholf, V. (2004) Structure and Genesis of Some Hippocratic Treatises. In: Magic and Rationality in Ancient Near Eastern and Graeco-Roman Medicine (p. 219). unapi

Chapter Horstmanshoff, H. F. J. (2004) “Did the god learn medicine?” Asclepius and Temple Medicine in Aelius Aristides' Sacred Tales. In: Magic and Rationality in Ancient Near Eastern and Graeco-Roman Medicine (p. 325). unapi

Chapter Stol, M. (2004) An Assyriologist Reads Hippocrates. In: Magic and Rationality in Ancient Near Eastern and Graeco-Roman Medicine (p. 63). unapi

Chapter Heeßel, N.P. (2004) Diagnosis, Divination and Disease: Towards an Understanding of the rationale behind the Babylonian Diagnostic Handbook. In: Magic and Rationality in Ancient Near Eastern and Graeco-Roman Medicine (p. 97). unapi

Chapter Arnott, R. (2004) Minoan and Mycenaean Medicine and Its Near Eastern Contacts. In: Magic and Rationality in Ancient Near Eastern and Graeco-Roman Medicine (p. 153). unapi

Chapter Thomas, R. (2004) Greek Medicine and Babylonian Wisdom: Circulation of Knowledge and Channels of Transmission in the Archaic and Classical Periods. In: Magic and Rationality in Ancient Near Eastern and Graeco-Roman Medicine (p. 175). unapi

Chapter Hanson, A.E. (2004) Aphorismi 5.28-63 and the Gynaecological Texts of the Corpus Hippocraticum. In: Magic and Rationality in Ancient Near Eastern and Graeco-Roman Medicine (p. 277). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Totelin, Laurence M. V.
Zipser, Barbara
Todman, Donald
Swerdlow, Noel M.
Seidel, Jonathan Lee
Schubert, Charlotte
Concepts
Medicine
Gynecology
Magic
Hippocratic medicine
Manuscripts
Primary literature (historical sources)
Time Periods
Ancient
Medieval
Places
Greece
Rome (Italy)
Middle and Near East
Egypt
Mesopotamia
Assyria
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