Magic and Rationality in Ancient Near Eastern and Graeco-Roman MedicineManfred Horstmanshoff, Marten Stol BRILL, 17. jul. 2018 - 407 sider 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. |
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Introduction | 1 |
Early Greek and Babylonian Diagnosis | 11 |
An Assyriologist Reads Hippocrates | 63 |
Überlegungen zu altorientalischen Konzeptionen von Krankheit und Heilkuns | 79 |
Towards an Understanding of the rationale behind the Babylonian Diagnostic Handbook | 97 |
Epidemics Contagion and a Magic Ritual against the Hand of the Ghost | 117 |
Rationality versus Irrationality in Egyptian Medicine in the Pharaonic and GraecoRoman Periods | 133 |
Minoan and Mycenaean Medicine and its Near Eastern Contacts | 153 |
Structure and Genesis of Some Hippocratic Treatises | 219 |
Aphorismi 52863 and the Gynaecological Texts of the Corpus Hippocraticum | 277 |
Bloodletting in Babylonia | 305 |
Did the god learn medicine? Asclepius and Temple Medicine in Aelius Aristides Sacred Tales | 325 |
Vindicianus Gynaecia and Theories on Generation and Embryology from the Babylonians up to GraecoRoman Times | 343 |
At times these ancient facts seem to lie before me like a patient on a hospital bedRetrospective Diagnosis and Ancient Medical History | 369 |
Indices | 387 |
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Circulation of Knowledge and Channels of Transmission in the Archaic and Classical Periods | 175 |
The Hippocratic Work On Dreams De victu 4 and its Near Eastern Background | 187 |
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