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The quick and the dead : biomedical theory in ancient Egypt /
This volume uses a cross-disciplinary approach to examine the origins of ancient Egyptian medicine in the domestication, care and sacrifice of cattle. Ritual cattle sacrifice in Egypt led to a rudimentary understanding of animal anatomy and physiology, which was then applied to humans. Two original...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill : Styx,
2004.
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| Colección: | Egyptological memoirs ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Figures and Table
- Preface
- Transliteration and Abbreviations
- Chapter 1. Sources of Egyptian Biomedical Knowledge
- Magic and Processes of Science
- Egyptological Sources of Evidence
- Biological Sources of Evidence
- Ethnographic Sources of Evidence
- Chapter 2. Life and Death
- Egyptian Priests' Preoccupations with Problems of Death and Rebirth
- Textual Sources and Portrayals
- Rituals and Concepts
- Ka as a Concept Underlying Ritual
- Animal Associations with Life
- Animal Associations with Death
- Conclusions
- Chapter 3. Predynastic Egypt as 'Cattle Culture'
- Bos primigenius and Wild Bull Hunts
- Cattle Domestication and Milk Drinking
- Pharaoh as Bull, People as Cattle
- Sun and Gods as Bulls
- Bovine Gods of Fertility and Power: Living Bull Gods
- Some Comparisons
- Bovine Sacrifice
- Egyptian Temple Herds and Cattle Wealth
- Baboons as Bulls
- Conclusions
- Chapter 4. The Approach of Comparative Biomedicine
- Analogy and Biomedical Progress
- Animal Dissections in Egypt
- Continuing Importance of Comparative Biomedicine
- TheMicrobiological Revolution
- Conclusions
- Chapter 5. 'Live Flesh': Rudiments of Muscle Physiology.
- Motion and Irritability as Evidences of Life
- Opening-of-the-Mouth Ritual
- Laboratory Reenactment
- Ka as the Animating Principle
- Comparison of Ka to Nilotic Ring
- Other Comparisons
- Conclusions
- Chapter 6. Physiology of the Spine
- Spine and Life
- Keeping the Body Intact
- BoneMarrow and Life
- Particular Importance of Thoracic Vertebrae
- Meaning of Ankh
- Theories about Ankh's Origin
- as Thoracic Vertebra
- Clinical Proof
- Spine and Death
- Mtwt and a Physiological Analogy between Opposites
- Comparative Findings
- The Principal Supporting Vertebrae for the Body.
- Djed and Backbone
- as the Sacral and Lumbar Spine
- Other Theories of Djed's Origin Subsumed
- Comparative Observations
- Conclusions
- Chapter 7. The Male Reproductive System
- The Male's Role in Reproduction
- The Was-Scepter, Penis and Dominion
- Dominion as a Behavioral and Social Phenomenon
- Baboons and Sexual Exercise of Dominion
- Gods' Penises and Dominion
- Penis Analogs
- as Bull's Penis
- Additional Biological Evidence
- The Ancient Egyptian Mindset
- as the Male Reproductive System
- Semen Analogs
- Conclusions.
- Chapter 8. The Egyptian Healing Establishment
- Egyptian Healers
- Some Comparisons With Greece
- Per Ankh, Hut Ankh and Their Functions
- Some Comparisons With Greece
- The Kahun Veterinary Papyrus
- Conclusions
- Chapter 9. Egyptian Biomedical Science: Theories and Implications
- Structure of the Body
- Functions of Organs
- The Egyptians' Synthesis: A First Approximation
- Pathogenesis
- Comparative Reproductive Physiology and Medicine
- A Further Word about Materials and Methods
- Boundaries to Biomedical Innovation
- A Natural Laboratory
- Episodic Biomedical Progress.