Mesopotamian Medicine and Religion
Current Debates, New Perspectives
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5014554 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Eleanor Robson (0000-0001-6966-5463, University of Cambridge, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 455-483 |
| Publication date | 2008-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religion Compass (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1749-8171 • E-ISSN: 1749-8171 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1749-8171.2008.00082.x |
| OpenAlex | W2065687549 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 42 |
The study of Mesopotamian medicine, while unprecedentedly productive, is stuck in a historiographical rut that cognate disciplines left some years ago. I review the current state of the field from a peripheral vantage point and use case studies from Sumerian literature and Neo-Assyrian royal letters to exemplify alternative approaches that do not sacrifice philological rigour for anthropological attention to socio-intellectual context
Archaeology · Epistemology · Historiography · Philology · Political science · Rigour · Sacrifice · Scholarship · Sociology · Theology · Ancient Egypt and Archaeology · Ancient Near East History · Anthropology · Classics · Gender Studies · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Psychology
Between Greece and Babylonia
The Corporeality of the Self
Intergenerational Reciprocity in Assyrian Palaces
Patients Seeking Out Sanctuaries of Deities in Medical Prescriptions
Mesopotamian Scholarship
Destabilising Homosexuality in šumma ālu
Inferential schema in Akkadian diagnosis
Threads for Esagil-kīn-apli. The Medical Diagnostic-Prognostic Series in Middle Babylonian Nippur
Babylonian Populations, Servility, and Cuneiform Records
Associations chromatiques entre ingrédients et problèmes de santé dans la thérapie mésopotamienne
Hittite diplomatic texts
Law collections from Mesopotamia and Asia Minor
The Amarna Letters
Ancient Medicine
The Archaeology of Human Bones
Bioarchaeology
Archaeology, Ritual, Religion
Pain as Human Experience
A Pharmaceutical Text at Ebla (TM.75.G.1623)
Medicine Across Cultures
Astral Magic in Babylonia
When You Perform the Ritual of ‘Rubbing’”
Patterns of Mobility among Ancient near Eastern Craftsmen
The Assyrian Pharmaceutical Series URU.AN.NA
Changing Trends in the Historiography of Mesopotamian Mathematics
Medicine and Religion in Ancient Egypt
Letters from Assyrian and Babylonian Scholars
Die Babylonisch-Assyrische Morphoskopie
Babylonisch-Assyrische Diagnostik
Ritual
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2025 (15) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |