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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.
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 de...
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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.
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 O...
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