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 /

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Imprint:	Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]
Description:	1 online resource.
Language:	English
Series:	Studies in ancient medicine, 0925-1421 ; v. 49 Studies in Ancient Medicine 49. Studies in Ancient Medicine Online, ISBN: 9789004380813.
Subject:	Medicine, Assyro-Babylonian. Medicine, Egyptian. Medicine, Greek and Roman.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13530483

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Other authors / contributors:	Wee, John Z.
ISBN:	9789004356771 9789004356764
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
Summary:	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.
Other form:	Print version: Comparable body Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017] 9789004356764
Standard no.:	10.1163/9789004356771

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Summary:	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.
Physical Description:	1 online resource.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9789004356771 9789004356764
ISSN:	0925-1421 ;