Advances in Mesopotamian medicine from Hammurabi to Hippocrates : proceedings of the International Conference "Oeil Malade et Mauvais Oeil", Collège de France, Paris, 23rd June 2006 / edited by Annie Attia and Gilles Buisson ; with the collaboration of Markham J. Geller.

This volume, which originated with a conference at the Collège de France, comprises articles on Babylonian and Assyrian medicine.

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Contributors: Attia, Annie, Buisson, Gilles
Corporate Contributor: International Conference "Oeil malade et mauvais oeil"
Format: Electronic Conference Proceeding eBook
Language:English
French
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.
Series:Cuneiform monographs ; 37.
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Genre/Form:Congress
proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: "Oeil malade et mauvais oeil" / Markham J. Geller
  • Babylonian physician Rabâ-ša-Marduk. Another look at physicians and exorcists in the Ancient Near East / Nils P. Heessel
  • "To be ill" in Akkadian: the verb salā'u and the substantive sili'tu / Marten Stol
  • Some notes on medical information outside the medical corpora / Martin Worthington
  • Cuneiform tablets on eye diseases: Babylonian sources in relation to the series DIŠ NA IGI"-šú GIG / Jeanette C. Fincke
  • On medical technology in Ancient Mesopotamia / Barbara Böck
  • Ancienneté de la médecine hippocratique: un essai de bilan / Paul Demont.