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...
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| Schriftenreihe: | Studies in ancient medicine ;
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| Zusammenfassung: | 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 address the role of analogy and metaphor as features of medical culture and theory, while questioning their naturalness and inevitability, their limits, their situation between the descriptive and the prescriptive, and complexities in their portrayal as a mutually intelligible medium for communication and consensus among users. |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (xix, 437 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9789004356771 9004356770 |
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| spelling | The comparable body : analogy and metaphor in ancient Mesopotamian, Egyptian, and Greco-Roman medicine / edited by John Z. Wee. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017] ©2017 1 online resource (xix, 437 pages) : illustrations text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Studies in ancient medicine ; volume 49 Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 01, 2017). 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. 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 address the role of analogy and metaphor as features of medical culture and theory, while questioning their naturalness and inevitability, their limits, their situation between the descriptive and the prescriptive, and complexities in their portrayal as a mutually intelligible medium for communication and consensus among users. Medicine, Assyro-Babylonian. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85083118 Medicine, Egyptian. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85083137 Medicine, Greek and Roman. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85083142 Médecine assyro-babylonienne. Médecine égyptienne. Médecine grecque et romaine. HEALTH & FITNESS Holism. bisacsh HEALTH & FITNESS Reference. bisacsh MEDICAL Alternative Medicine. bisacsh MEDICAL Atlases. bisacsh MEDICAL Essays. bisacsh MEDICAL Family & General Practice. bisacsh MEDICAL Holistic Medicine. bisacsh MEDICAL Osteopathy. bisacsh Medicine, Assyro-Babylonian fast Medicine, Egyptian fast Medicine, Greek and Roman fast Wee, John Z., editor. has work: The comparable body (Text) https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCGhf3kftr7pCT6HyrJCQD3 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/ontology/hasWork Print version: Comparable body. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017] 9789004356764 (DLC) 2017044900 (OCoLC)1005775401 Studies in ancient medicine ; v. 49. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n90667302 |
| spellingShingle | The comparable body : analogy and metaphor in ancient Mesopotamian, Egyptian, and Greco-Roman medicine / Studies in ancient medicine ; 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? / Analogy and Metaphor in Ancient Medicine and the Ancient Egyptian Conceptualisation of Heat in the Body* / From Head to Toe: Listing the Body in Cuneiform Texts / The Stuff of Causation: Etiological Metaphor and Pathogenic Channeling in Babylonian Medicine1 / Aristotle's Heart and the Heartless Man / Earthquake and Epilepsy: The Body Geologic in the Hippocratic Treatise On the Sacred Disease / The Lineage of "Bloodlines": Synecdoche, Metonymy, Medicine, and More / Eye Metaphors, Analogies and Similes within Mesopotamian Magico-Medical Texts* / The Experience and Description of Pain in Aelius Aristides' Hieroi Logoi / Concepts of the Female Body in Mesopotamian Gynecological Texts / Pure Life: The Limits of the Vegetal Analogy in the Hippocratics and Galen / Animal, Vegetable, Metaphor: Plotinus's Liver and the Roots of Biological Identity / Medicine, Assyro-Babylonian. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85083118 Medicine, Egyptian. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85083137 Medicine, Greek and Roman. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85083142 Médecine assyro-babylonienne. Médecine égyptienne. Médecine grecque et romaine. HEALTH & FITNESS Holism. bisacsh HEALTH & FITNESS Reference. bisacsh MEDICAL Alternative Medicine. bisacsh MEDICAL Atlases. bisacsh MEDICAL Essays. bisacsh MEDICAL Family & General Practice. bisacsh MEDICAL Holistic Medicine. bisacsh MEDICAL Osteopathy. bisacsh Medicine, Assyro-Babylonian fast Medicine, Egyptian fast Medicine, Greek and Roman fast |
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| title_alt | 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? / Analogy and Metaphor in Ancient Medicine and the Ancient Egyptian Conceptualisation of Heat in the Body* / From Head to Toe: Listing the Body in Cuneiform Texts / The Stuff of Causation: Etiological Metaphor and Pathogenic Channeling in Babylonian Medicine1 / Aristotle's Heart and the Heartless Man / Earthquake and Epilepsy: The Body Geologic in the Hippocratic Treatise On the Sacred Disease / The Lineage of "Bloodlines": Synecdoche, Metonymy, Medicine, and More / Eye Metaphors, Analogies and Similes within Mesopotamian Magico-Medical Texts* / The Experience and Description of Pain in Aelius Aristides' Hieroi Logoi / Concepts of the Female Body in Mesopotamian Gynecological Texts / Pure Life: The Limits of the Vegetal Analogy in the Hippocratics and Galen / Animal, Vegetable, Metaphor: Plotinus's Liver and the Roots of Biological Identity / |
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