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Index
Cover
Table of Contents
Series
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Illustrations
Abbreviations
Acknowledgments
Introduction to Babylonian Medicine and Magic
Dissection and Disease Taxonomy
The Sources
Is Medicine Magic and Is Magic Medicine?
1: Medicine as Science
“Scientific” Medicine
Academic Medicine
Anatomical Science
Medical Predictions
Medical Prescriptions
Sumerian and Akkadian Therapeutic Magic
Psychosomatic Illness
Divination
2: Who Did What to Whom?
Professional Title Classification
The Exorcist in Sumerian Literature
Priest vs Layman
Quacks and Quacksalvers
3: The Politics of Medicine
Letters from the Kingdom of Mari (Syria), Eighteenth Century BC
Physicians in Babylonia (Eighteenth–Seventeenth Century BC)
Second-Millennium BC Medical Corpus
Epidemics
Middle Babylonian Letters (c. Fifteenth Century BC)
Neo-Assyrian Court Letters
Literary Hypochondria
Urad-Nanaya, Chief Physician to Esarhaddon
4: Medicine as Literature
Diagnostic Handbook
Medical Incantations
Therapeutic Prescriptions as Genre
Poetry Within Therapeutic Prescriptions
The Babylonian Background to Greco-Roman Pharmacology
5: Medicine and Philosophy
Innovation
Ascendance of the Exorcist and Decline of the Physician
6: Medical Training: MD or PhD?
Academic Titles
The Meaning of ana tāmarti “for Reading”
The Case of Anu-iksur of Uruk
7: Uruk Medical Commentaries
Commentaries on the Diagnostic Handbook and General Themes of Prognosis
Medical Terminology in Commentaries
Writing Down of Medical Knowledge
8: Medicine and Magic as Independent Approaches to Healing
Practice
Theory
Appendix: An Edition of a Medical Commentary
Translation
The Source Text
Translation of ll. 1–9
Notes
References
Subject Index
Selective Index of Akkadian and Greek Words
Index of Akkadian Personal Names
End User License Agreement
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