Magic and Rationality in Ancient Near Eastern and Graeco-Roman Medicine - Tapa dura

 
9789004136663: Magic and Rationality in Ancient Near Eastern and Graeco-Roman Medicine
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ISBN 10: 9004136665 ISBN 13: 9789004136663
Editorial: BRILL ACADEMIC PUB, 2004

Sinopsis

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 volume focuses on 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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Acerca del autor

H.F.J. (Manfred) Horstmanshoff is associate professor of Ancient History at the Universiteit Leiden. He published on Greek, Roman and Early Modern medicine.
M. Stol is professor of Assyriology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He published on Babylonian medicine and the social history of the Old Babylonian period.

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Editorial
BRILL ACADEMIC PUB
Año de publicación
2004
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
9004136665
ISBN 13 
9789004136663
Encuadernación
Tapa dura
Número de páginas
408
Editor
Horstmanshoff Manfred, Stol Marten
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