The comparable body : : analogy and metaphor in ancient Mesopotamian, Egyptian, and Greco-Roman medicine / / edited by John Z. Wee.

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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Superior document:Studies in Ancient Medicine, Volume 49
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2017.
©2017
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Studies in ancient medicine ; Volume 49.
Physical Description:1 online resource (457 pages) :; illustrations (some color).
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