Knowledge and Rhetoric in Medical Commentary - Ancient Mesopotamian Commentaries on a Handbook of Medical Diagnosis (Sa-Gig), Cuneiform Monographs Vol. 49/1

Knowledge and Rhetoric in Medical Commentary explores the dynamic between scholastic rhetoric and medical knowledge in ancient commentaries on a Mesopotamian Diagnostic Handbook, whose atypical language and ideas were harmonized with conventional ways of perceiving and describing the sick body.

About the author

John Z. Wee, Ph.D. (2012), Yale University, is Assistant Professor of Assyriology at the University of Chicago. He is author of books and articles on medicine and astronomy in Mesopotamian and Greco-Roman antiquity, and editor of The Comparable Body (Brill, 2017).

Product details

• Authors: John Z Wee, John Z. Wee
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.12.2019
• EAN: 9789004417540
• ISBN: 978-90-04-41754-0
• No. of pages: 533
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 236 mm x 35 mm
• Weight: 889 g
• Series: Cuneiform Monographs
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History