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Systems of Classification in Premodern Medical Cultures

Sickness, Health, and Local Epistemologies
BuchGebunden
322 Seiten
Englisch
Routledgeerschienen am22.07.2020
Systems of Classification in Premodern Medical Cultures puts historical illness concepts in cross-cultural perspective, investigating perceptions, constructions and experiences of health and illness, from antiquity to the 17th century.mehr
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EUR207,50
TaschenbuchKartoniert, Paperback
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Produkt

KlappentextSystems of Classification in Premodern Medical Cultures puts historical illness concepts in cross-cultural perspective, investigating perceptions, constructions and experiences of health and illness, from antiquity to the 17th century.
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-1-138-57112-9
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartGebunden
FormatGenäht
Verlag
Erscheinungsjahr2020
Erscheinungsdatum22.07.2020
Seiten322 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 156 mm, Höhe 234 mm, Dicke 21 mm
Gewicht653 g
Artikel-Nr.56087749

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction: sickness, cultural classifications and local epistemologies; PART I Disease concepts and healing: new approaches to knowledge and practice in premodern medical texts and traditions; 1 Distinctive issues in the history of medicine in antiquity; 2 How to read a recipe? Working backwards from the prescription to the complaint; 3 Experiencing the dead in ancient Egyptian healing texts; PART II Disease classifications in premodern medical texts and traditions from the Near East, Mediterranean and East Asia; 4 Types of diagnoses in Papyrus Ebers and Smith; 5 Ancient Egyptian prescriptions for the back and abdomen and their Mesopotamian and Mediterranean counterparts; 6 Disease concepts and classifications in ancient Mesopotamian medicine; 7 Classification of illnesses in the Hippocratic Corpus; 8 The delicacy of the rabbinic asthenes: sickness, weakness or self-indulgence?; 9 The Paradise of Wisdom: streams of tradition in the first medical encyclopaedia in Arabic; 10 The Tree of Nosology in Tibetan medicine; PART III Mental illness in ancient medical systems; 11 Disturbing disorders: reconsidering the problem of mental diseases´ in ancient Mesopotamia; 12 Classification, explanation and experience: mental disorder in Graeco-Roman antiquitymehr

Autor

Ulrike Steinert is a postdoctoral researcher in the Research Training Group 1876 'Early Concepts of Humans and Nature' at Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany. Her research and publications focus on the history of Mesopotamian medicine and culture, the Akkadian language, women's health, gender and body concepts. She is the author of a study on the body, self and identity in Mesopotamian texts, entitled Aspekte des Menschseins im Alten Mesopotamien. Eine Studie zu Person und Identität im 2. und 1. Jt. v. Chr. (2012) and is currently preparing a monograph on Women's Health Care in Ancient Mesopotamia: An Edition of the Textual Sources.