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The Comparable Body - Analogy and Metaphor in Ancient Mesopotamian, Egyptian, and Greco-Roman Medicine

English · Hardback

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The Comparable Body - Analogy and Metaphor in Ancient Mesopotamian, Egyptian, and Greco-Roman Medicine explores how analogy and metaphor illuminate and shape conceptions about the human body and disease, through 11 case studies from ancient Mesopotamian, Egyptian, and Greco-Roman medicine.

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John Z. Wee, Ph.D. (2012), Yale University, is Assistant Professor of Assyriology at the University of Chicago. He is the author of books and articles on medicine and astronomy in Mesopotamian and Greco-Roman antiquity, including Knowledge and Rhetoric in Medical Commentary (Brill, 2018).

Contributors are: M. Erica Couto-Ferreira, Lesley Dean-Jones, Janet Downie, Brooke Holmes, J. Cale Johnson, Paul T. Keyser, Rune Nyord, Strahil Valentinov Panayotov, Courtney Ann Roby, Ulrike Steinert, John Z. Wee

Product details

Assisted by John Z Wee (Editor), John Z. Wee (Editor)
Publisher Brill
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 01.12.2017
 
EAN 9789004356764
ISBN 978-90-04-35676-4
No. of pages 460
Dimensions 159 mm x 241 mm x 32 mm
Weight 778 g
Series Studies in Ancient Medicine
Subject Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity

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