Magic and Rationality in Ancient Near Eastern and Graeco-Roman Medicine

A study of methods in Ancient Near Eastern and Greek and Roman medicine, based on representative text corpora. Central is the question of what is "rational," or not, in the various systems.

About the author

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.

Product details

• Assisted by: Manfred Horstmanshoff (Editor), Marten Stol (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.10.2004
• EAN: 9789004136663
• ISBN: 978-90-04-13666-3
• No. of pages: 424
• Dimensions: 244 mm x 164 mm x 32 mm
• Weight: 889 g
• Series: Studies in Ancient Medicine
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Interior design, design; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General