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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