CLASSIFICATION: MEDICINE

By B. MAENS

CONTENTS INTRODUCTION: SICKNESS, CULTURAL CLASSIFICATIONS AND LOCAL EPISTEMOLOGIES PART I DISEASE CONCEPTS AND HEALING: NEW APPROACHES TO KNOWLEDGE AND PRACTICE IN PREMODERN MEDICAL TEXTS AND TRADITIONS 1 DISTINCTIVE ISSUES IN THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE IN ANTIQUITY 2 HOW TO READ A RECIPE? WORKING BACKWARDS FROM THE PRESCRIPTION TO THE COMPLAINT 3 EXPERIENCING THE DEAD IN ANCIENT EGYPTIAN HEALING TEXTS PART II DISEASE CLASSIFICATIONS IN PREMODERN MEDICAL TEXTS AND TRADITIONS FROM THE NEAR EAST, MEDITERRANEAN AND EAST ASIA 4 TYPES OF DIAGNOSES IN PAPYRUS EBERS AND SMITH 5 ANCIENT EGYPTIAN PRESCRIPTIONS FOR THE BACK AND ABDOMEN AND THEIR MESOPOTAMIAN AND MEDITERRANEAN COUNTERPARTS 6 DISEASE CONCEPTS AND CLASSIFICATIONS IN ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIAN MEDICINE 7 CLASSIFICATION OF ILLNESSES IN THE HIPPOCRATIC CORPUS 8 THE DELICACY OF THE RABBINIC ASTHENES: SICKNESS, WEAKNESS OR SELF-INDULGENCE? 9 THE PARADISE OF WISDOM: STREAMS OF TRADITION IN THE FIRST MEDICAL ENCYCLOPAEDIA IN ARABIC 10 THE TREE OF NOSOLOGY IN TIBETAN MEDICINE