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The Comparable Body - Analogy and Metaphor in Ancient Mesopotamian, Egyptian, and Greco-Roman Medicine de John Z Wee

The Comparable Body - Analogy and Metaphor in Ancient Mesopotamian, Egyptian, and Greco-Roman Medicine: Studies in Ancient Medicine, cartea 49

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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.
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ISBN-13: 9789004356764
ISBN-10: 9004356762
Pagini: 440
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.75 kg
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill
Seria Studies in Ancient Medicine

Cuprins

AcknowledgementsList of Figures and TablesAbbreviationsTransliteration NotesPeriodization of Ancient MesopotamiaContributorsIntroduction: To What May I Liken Metaphor?John Z. Wee1 Analogy and Metaphor in Ancient Medicine and the Ancient Egyptian Conceptualisation of Heat in the BodyRune Nyord2 From Head to Toe: Listing the Body in Cuneiform TextsM. Erica Couto-Ferreira3 The Stuff of Causation: Etiological Metaphor and Pathogenic Channeling in Babylonian MedicineJ. Cale Johnson4 Aristotle’s Heart and the Heartless ManLesley Dean-Jones5 Earthquake and Epilepsy: The Body Geologic in the Hippocratic Treatise on the Sacred DiseaseJohn Z. Wee6 The Lineage of “Bloodlines”: Synecdoche, Metonymy, Medicine and MorePaul T. Keyser7 Eye Metaphors, Analogies and Similes within Mesopotamian Magico-Medical Texts Strahil V. Panayotov8 The Experience and Description of Pain in Aelius Aristides’ Hieroi LogoiJanet Downie9 Concepts of the Female Body in Mesopotamian Gynecological TextsUlrike Steinert10 Pure Life: The Limits of the Vegetal Analogy in the Hippocratics and Galen Brooke Holmes11 Animal, Vegetable, Metaphor: Plotinus’s Liver and the Roots of Biological IdentityCourtney Ann RobyIndex Locorum

Notă biografică

John Z. Wee, Ph.D. (2012), Yale University, is Assistant Professor of Assyriology at the University of Chicago. He is the author of books and articles on medicine and astronomy in Mesopotamian and Greco-Roman antiquity, including Knowledge and Rhetoric in Medical Commentary (Brill, 2018).

Contributors are: M. Erica Couto-Ferreira, Lesley Dean-Jones, Janet Downie, Brooke Holmes, J. Cale Johnson, Paul T. Keyser, Rune Nyord, Strahil Valentinov Panayotov, Courtney Ann Roby, Ulrike Steinert, John Z. Wee

Recenzii

"This book provides wide-ranging, thought-provoking material from across a spectrum of ancientsources. It includes extensive chapter bibliographies and an index locorum of referenced ancient texts.Aimed primarily at the specialist reader, the book clearly demonstrates the contribution that metaphoricaltheory can make to this field and provides a valuable addition to the literature." Rosalie David, Isis: A Journal of the History of Science Society, Vol. 110 No. 3, Sept 2019.
"The Comparable Body is an important book, which maps a burgeoning area of research, offers insightful theoretical comments and fulfills the goal of letting in-depth case-studies bring into focus related issues which would have gone unnoticed otherwise. (...) Moreover, many contributions analyze how ancient interpreters – the authors of compendia and commentaries – dealt with the issue of interpreting (what we consider as) metaphors: this opens up an interesting perspective on how the ancient literate milieus have dealt with the very same phenomena analyzed in this book. Lastly, the question of the universality as opposed to the culturally situated nature of bodily metaphors not only receives sustained theoretical attention (see mainly Chapters 1, 3 and 9), but is also substantiated by the wealth of examples showing both the cross-cultural recurrence and the local variations of some metaphorical patterns, such as those recruiting botanical phenomena (Chapters 7, 8, 10, 11), landscape features (Chapters 3, 5, 9) or social interactions (Chapters 3, 7, 11)."
Alessandro Buccheri in CJ-online 2021.04.05