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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. Topics ad...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2017]
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| Colección: | Studies in ancient medicine ;
v. 49. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Matter
- Copyright page
- Acknowledgements
- List of Figures and Tables
- Abbreviations
- Transliteration Notes
- Periodization of Ancient Mesopotamia
- Contributors
- Introduction: To What May I Liken Metaphor? / John Z. Wee
- Analogy and Metaphor in Ancient Medicine and the Ancient Egyptian Conceptualisation of Heat in the Body* / Rune Nyord
- From Head to Toe: Listing the Body in Cuneiform Texts / M. Erica Couto-Ferreira
- The Stuff of Causation: Etiological Metaphor and Pathogenic Channeling in Babylonian Medicine1 / J. Cale Johnson
- Aristotle's Heart and the Heartless Man / Lesley Dean-Jones
- Earthquake and Epilepsy: The Body Geologic in the Hippocratic Treatise On the Sacred Disease / John Z. Wee
- The Lineage of "Bloodlines": Synecdoche, Metonymy, Medicine, and More / Paul T. Keyser
- Eye Metaphors, Analogies and Similes within Mesopotamian Magico-Medical Texts* / Strahil V. Panayotov
- The Experience and Description of Pain in Aelius Aristides' Hieroi Logoi / Janet Downie
- Concepts of the Female Body in Mesopotamian Gynecological Texts / Ulrike Steinert
- Pure Life: The Limits of the Vegetal Analogy in the Hippocratics and Galen / Brooke Holmes
- Animal, Vegetable, Metaphor: Plotinus's Liver and the Roots of Biological Identity / Courtney Ann Roby.