The comparable body : analogy and metaphor in ancient Mesopotamian, Egyptian, and Greco-Roman medicine

Title
  1. The comparable body : analogy and metaphor in ancient Mesopotamian, Egyptian, and Greco-Roman medicine / edited by John Z. Wee.
Published by
  1. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]

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Additional authors
  1. Wee, John Z.
Description
  1. xix, 437 pages : illustrations (some color); 24 cm
Summary
  1. 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. Topics address the role of analogy and metaphor as features of medical culture and theory, while questioning their naturalness and inevitability, their indeterminate limits, their situation between the descriptive and the prescriptive, and complexities in their portrayal as a mutually intelligible medium for communication and consensus among healers and patients. Common assumptions about metaphor as the mapping of characteristics from one domain to another may be found inadequate and requiring nuance, particularly as ideas and expressions from different domains become incorporated as part of technical and professional language.
Series statement
  1. Studies in ancient medicine, 0925-1421 ; volume 49
Uniform title
  1. Studies in ancient medicine ; v v. 49.
Subject
  1. Medicine, Assyro-Babylonian
  2. Medicine, Egyptian
  3. Medicine, Greek and Roman
  4. History, Ancient
  5. Mesopotamia
Call number
  1. JFE 18-2224
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Title
  1. The comparable body : analogy and metaphor in ancient Mesopotamian, Egyptian, and Greco-Roman medicine / edited by John Z. Wee.
Publisher
  1. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Series
  1. Studies in ancient medicine, 0925-1421 ; volume 49
  2. Studies in ancient medicine ; v v. 49.
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Added author
  1. Wee, John Z., editor.
LCCN
  1. 2017044900
ISBN
  1. 9789004356764 hardcover alkaline paper
  2. 9004356762 hardcover alkaline paper
Research call number
  1. JFE 18-2224
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