Chapter Depersonalized Case Histories in the Babylonian Therapeutic Compendia

• Main Author: Cale Johnson, J. (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2015
• Subjects: Middle Eastern history; Christianity; Ancient religions & mythologies; early scientific thought; compilation and redaction in the ancient world; infrastructural compendia; empiricism
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

Standard histories of medicine identify Hippocratic texts such as Epidemics as the earliest medical case histories in human history. In contrast to the Hippocratic case histories, it is often stated that Babylonian medicine made no use of individual case histories. In this paper, I investigate '...