Knowledge and Rhetoric in Medical Commentary

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.

Info autore

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).

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: John Wee, John Z Wee, John Z. Wee
• Editore: de Gruyter Brill
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 30.12.2019
• EAN: 9789004417540
• ISBN: 978-90-04-41754-0
• Pagine: 533
• Dimensioni: 160 mm x 236 mm x 35 mm
• Peso: 889 g
• Serie: Cuneiform Monographs
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia