John Z Wee, "The Comparable Body - Analogy and Metaphor in Ancient Mesopotamian, Egyptian, and Greco-Roman Medicine"
2017 | ISBN-10: 9004356762 | 424 pages | PDF | 3 MB
2017 | ISBN-10: 9004356762 | 424 pages | PDF | 3 MB
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.