The comparable body : analogy and metaphor in ancient Mesopotamian, Egyptian, and Greco-Roman medicine /
The Comparable Body - Analogy and Metaphor in Ancient Mesopotamian, Egyptian, and Greco-Roman Medicine explores how analogy and metaphor illuminate and shape conceptions about the human body and disease, through 11 case studies from ancient Mesopotamian, Egyptian, and Greco-Roman medicine. Topics ad...
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Format: eBook
Language: English
Published:
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2017]
Series:
Studies in Ancient Medicine
49.
Studies in Ancient Medicine Online, ISBN: 9789004380813.
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Call Number: R135
- Front Matter
- Copyright page
- Acknowledgements
- List of Figures and Tables
- Abbreviations
- Transliteration Notes
- Periodization of Ancient Mesopotamia
- Contributors
- Introduction: To What May I Liken Metaphor? /
- John Z. Wee
- Analogy and Metaphor in Ancient Medicine and the Ancient Egyptian Conceptualisation of Heat in the Body* /
- Rune Nyord
- From Head to Toe: Listing the Body in Cuneiform Texts /
- M. Erica Couto-Ferreira
- The Stuff of Causation: Etiological Metaphor and Pathogenic Channeling in Babylonian Medicine1 /
- J. Cale Johnson
- Aristotle's Heart and the Heartless Man /
- Lesley Dean-Jones
- Earthquake and Epilepsy: The Body Geologic in the Hippocratic Treatise On the Sacred Disease /
- John Z. Wee
- The Lineage of "Bloodlines": Synecdoche, Metonymy, Medicine, and More /
- Paul T. Keyser
- Eye Metaphors, Analogies and Similes within Mesopotamian Magico-Medical Texts* /
- Strahil V. Panayotov
- The Experience and Description of Pain in Aelius Aristides' Hieroi Logoi /
- Janet Downie
- Concepts of the Female Body in Mesopotamian Gynecological Texts /
- Ulrike Steinert
- Pure Life: The Limits of the Vegetal Analogy in the Hippocratics and Galen /
- Brooke Holmes
- Animal, Vegetable, Metaphor: Plotinus's Liver and the Roots of Biological Identity /
- Courtney Ann Roby.