Systems of Classification in Premodern Medical Cultures

Systems of Classification in Premodern Medical Cultures

Sickness, Health, and Local Epistemologies

Steinert, Ulrike

Taylor & Francis Ltd

07/2020

322

Dura

Inglês

9781138571129

15 a 20 dias

635

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Introduction: sickness, cultural classifications and local epistemologies; PART I Disease concepts and healing: new approaches to knowledge and practice in premodern medical texts and traditions; 1 Distinctive issues in the history of medicine in antiquity; 2 How to read a recipe? Working backwards from the prescription to the complaint; 3 Experiencing the dead in ancient Egyptian healing texts; PART II Disease classifications in premodern medical texts and traditions from the Near East, Mediterranean and East Asia; 4 Types of diagnoses in Papyrus Ebers and Smith; 5 Ancient Egyptian prescriptions for the back and abdomen and their Mesopotamian and Mediterranean counterparts; 6 Disease concepts and classifications in ancient Mesopotamian medicine; 7 Classification of illnesses in the Hippocratic Corpus; 8 The delicacy of the rabbinic asthenes: sickness, weakness or self-indulgence?; 9 The Paradise of Wisdom: streams of tradition in the first medical encyclopaedia in Arabic; 10 The Tree of Nosology in Tibetan medicine; PART III Mental illness in ancient medical systems; 11 Disturbing disorders: reconsidering the problem of 'mental diseases' in ancient Mesopotamia; 12 Classification, explanation and experience: mental disorder in Graeco-Roman antiquity
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Tibetan Medicine;Graeco Roman Medicine;Medicine Medical Anthropology Medical texts Antiquity Hippocratic Corpus Galen Mesopotamia Ancient Near East Ancient Egypt Healing Illness;Rectal Disease;anthropological approaches;Mesopotamian Medicine;disease concepts;Materia Medica;manifestations;Millennium BCE;premodern medical cultures;Hippocratic Corpus;Vice Versa;Qing Hao;Female Dead;Word Istenis;Labrang Monastery;Explanatory Treatise;Therapeutic Texts;Sweet Wormwood;Rabban Gamaliel;Mishnah Berakhot;Caelius Aurelianus;Tannaitic Sources;Children's Urine;Passover Eve;Betel Nut;Amoraic Sources;Green Sickness