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Ancient Babylonian Medicine: Theory and Practice

ISBN: 978-1-4443-2000-8
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240 pages
March 2010, Wiley-Blackwell
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List of Illustrations.

List of Abbreviations.

Acknowledgments.

Introduction to Babylonian Medicine and Magic.

1 Medicine as Science.

2 Who Did What to Whom?

3 The Politics of Medicine.

4 Medicine as Literature.

5 Medicine and Philosophy.

6 Medical Training: MD or PhD?

7 Uruk Medical Commentaries.

8 Medicine and Magic as Independent Approaches to Healing.

Appendix: An Edition of a Medical Commentary.

Notes.

References.

Subject Index.

Selective Index of Akkadian and Greek Words.

Index of Akkadian Personal Names.