Magic and Rationality in Ancient Near Eastern and Graeco Roman Medicine Studies in Ancient Medicine 1st Edition by Manfred Horstmanshoff, Marten Stol 9004136665 978-9004136663 by H. F. J. Horstmanshoff, Marten Stol, C. R. Van Tilburg 9004136665 instant download after payment.

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ISBN 10: 9004136665

ISBN 13: 978-9004136663

Author: Manfred Horstmanshoff, Marten Stol

Magic and Rationality in Ancient Near Eastern and Graeco-Roman Medicine A study of methods in Ancient Near Eastern and Greek and Roman medicine, based on representative text corpora. Central is the question of what is "rational," or not, in the various systems. Full description

Table of contents:

1. Preliminary Material

2. Introduction

3. West Meets East: Early Greek and Babylonian Diagnosis

4. An Assyriologist Reads Hippocrates

5. Die ‘Lösung vom Bann’: Überlegungen zu altorientalischen Konzeptionen von Krankheit und Heilkunst

6. Diagnosis, Divination and Disease: Towards an Understanding of the Rationale Behind the Babylonian Diagnostic Handbook

7. How to Marry a Disease: Epidemics, Contagion, and a Magic Ritual Against the ‘Hand of the Ghost’

8. Rationality versus Irrationality in Egyptian Medicine in the Pharaonic and Graeco-Roman Periods

9. Minoan and Mycenaean Medicine and Its Near Eastern Contacts

10. Greek Medicine and Babylonian Wisdom: Circulation of Knowledge and Channels of Transmission in the Archaic and Classical Periods

11. Divination, Prognosis and Prophylaxis: The Hippocratic Work ‘On Dreams’ (De Victu 4) and Its Near Eastern Background

12. Structure and Genesis of Some Hippocratic Treatises

13. Aphorismi 5.28–63 and the Gynaecological Texts of the Corpus Hippocraticum

14. Bloodletting in Babylonia

15. Asclepius and Temple Medicine in Aelius Aristides’ Sacred Tales

16. Vindicianus’ Gynaecia and Theories on Generation and Embryology from the Babylonians up to Graeco-Roman Times

17. ‘At times these ancient facts seem to lie before me like a patient on a hospital bed’—Retrospective Diagnosis and Ancient Medical History

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