Chapter Depersonalized Case Histories in the Babylonian Therapeutic Compendia

• Главный автор: Cale Johnson, J. (auth)
• Формат: Электронный ресурс Глава книги
• Язык: английский
• Опубликовано: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2015
• Предметы: Middle Eastern history; Christianity; Ancient religions & mythologies; early scientific thought; compilation and redaction in the ancient world; infrastructural compendia; empiricism
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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 '...