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

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.

About the author

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