Knowledge and Rhetoric in Medical Commentary - (Cuneiform Monographs) by John Wee (Hardcover)

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Knowledge and Rhetoric in Medical Commentary explores the dynamic between scholastic rhetoric and medical knowledge in ancient commentaries on a Mesopotamian Diagnostic Handbook, whose atypical language and ideas were harmonized with conventional ways of perceiving and describing the sick body.
About the Author: John Z. Wee, Ph.D. (2012), Yale University, is Assistant Professor of Assyriology at the University of Chicago.
533 Pages
History, General
Series Name: Cuneiform Monographs

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About the Book

Knowledge and Rhetoric in Medical Commentary explores the dynamic between scholastic rhetoric and medical knowledge in ancient commentaries on a Mesopotamian Diagnostic Handbook, whose atypical language and ideas were harmonized with conventional ways of perceiving and describing the sick body.

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About the Author

John Z. Wee, Ph.D. (2012), Yale University, is Assistant Professor of Assyriology at the University of Chicago. He is author of books and articles on medicine and astronomy in Mesopotamian and Greco-Roman antiquity, and editor of The Comparable Body (Brill, 2017).

Dimensions (Overall): 9.3 Inches (H) x 6.3 Inches (W) x .7 Inches (D)

Weight: 1.05 Pounds

Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up

Number of Pages: 533

Genre: History

Sub-Genre: General

Series Title: Cuneiform Monographs

Publisher: Brill

Format: Hardcover

Author: John Wee

Language: English

Street Date: December 30, 2019

TCIN: 1007267515

UPC: 9789004417540

Item Number (DPCI): 247-35-1239

Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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