| Disease in Babylonia Contributor(s): Finkel (Editor), Geller (Editor) |
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ISBN: 9004124012 ISBN-13: 9789004124011 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $161.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2006 Annotation: The present collection of articles on disease in Babylonia is the first such volume to appear providing detailed information derived from published and unpublished medical texts in cuneiform script from the second and first millennia BC. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Ancient - General - History | Europe - General - Medical | History |
| Dewey: 610.9 |
| LCCN: 2006049182 |
| Series: Cuneiform Monographs |
| Physical Information: 0.77" H x 6.58" W x 9.73" (1.28 lbs) 234 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This collection of articles is the first collection of studies on the specific subject of disease in Babylonia, based upon actual medical texts, with contributions by senior scholars who have spent years working on published and unpublished cuneiform medical texts. The volume contains editions of unpublished materials as well as syntheses of information about specific diseases in Babylonia, such as fever, published here for the first time. The volume will be important for anyone interested in the history of ancient medicine as well as being an important contribution to Assyriology. |