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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.
Price: $251.00
Pages: 408
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Studies in Ancient Medicine
Publication Date:
14 October 2004
ISBN: 9789004136663
Format: Hardcover
'This book is of great interest and use for scholars.'
Marie-Hélène Congourdeau, BMCR, 2005.
Marie-Hélène Congourdeau, BMCR, 2005.
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.
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.