Chapter Depersonalized Case Histories in the Babylonian Therapeutic Compendia

• मुख्य लेखक: Cale Johnson, J. (auth)
• स्वरूप: इलेक्ट्रोनिक पुस्तक अध्याय
• भाषा: अंग्रेज़ी
• प्रकाशित: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2015
• विषय: Middle Eastern history; Christianity; Ancient religions & mythologies; early scientific thought; compilation and redaction in the ancient world; infrastructural compendia; empiricism
• ऑनलाइन पहुंच: 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 '...