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This volume exposes one of the world’s oldest medical marketplaces and the emergence of medical professionalization within it. Through an unprecedented analysis of the Mesopotamian healing goddesses as well as asûs, a diverse group of “healers”, Irene Sibbing-Plantholt demonstrates that from the Middle Babylonian period onwards, the goddess Gula was employed as a divine legitimization model for scholarly, professional asûs. With this work, Sibbing-Plantholt provides a unique insight in processes of medical competition and legitimization in ancient Mesopotamia, which speak to similar processes in other societies.
Price: $198.00
Pages: 412
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Publication Date:
01 April 2022
ISBN: 9789004512405
Format: Hardcover
"The author has looked at medical practitioners from a new perspective and in so doing has provided us with a very detailed picture of those who helped to keep people alive and healthy in ancient Mesopotamia. While a specialist work, of course, it is eminently clear and readable."
- Wilfred G.E. Watson
- Wilfred G.E. Watson
Irene Sibbing-Plantholt, Ph.D. in Assyriology (2017), University of Pennsylvania, is a postdoctoral research associate at the Freie Universität Berlin. She has published on the social history of health and healing, death and mortality, and emotions in ancient Mesopotamia.