Magic and rationality in ancient Near Eastern and Graeco-Roman medicine /

Magic and rationality in ancient Near Eastern and Graeco-Roman medicine /

For the first time, medical systems of the Ancient Near East and the Greek and Roman world are studied side by side and compared. Early medicine in Babylonia, Egypt, the Minoan and Mycenean world; later medicine in Hippocrates, Galen, Aelius Aristides, Vindicianus, the Talmud. The focus is the degre...

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Other Authors: Horstmanshoff, H. F. J., Stol, Marten., Tilburg, C. R. van

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2004.

Series: Studies in Ancient Medicine 27.
Studies in Ancient Medicine Online, ISBN: 9789004380813.

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Medicine, Assyro-Babylonian > Philosophy.
Medicine, Greek and Roman > Philosophy.
Magic.
Practical reason.

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Call Number: R135 .M335 2004

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Summary:For the first time, medical systems of the Ancient Near East and the Greek and Roman world are studied side by side and compared. Early medicine in Babylonia, Egypt, the Minoan and Mycenean world; later medicine in Hippocrates, Galen, Aelius Aristides, Vindicianus, the Talmud. The focus is the degree of \'rationality\' or \'irrationality\' in the various ways of medical thought and treatment. Fifteen specialists contributed thoughtful and well-documented chapters on important issues.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xv, 407 pages) : illustrations.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789047414315
ISSN:0925-1421 ;
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