Medicine in ancient Assur : a microhistorical study of the Neo-Assyrian healer Kiṣir-Aššur / / Troels Pank Arbøll |
Autore | Arbøll Troels Pank |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Brill, 2021 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (433 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 610.938 |
Collana | Ancient Magic and Divination |
Soggetto topico |
Medicine, Assyro-Babylonian
Medicine, Ancient |
Soggetto non controllato | History of medicine |
ISBN | 90-04-43608-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Acknowledgements -- List of Figures and Tables -- Abbreviations and Symbols -- Symbols and Further Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1.1 Colophons -- 1.2 Mesopotamian Medicine -- 1.3 Authorship -- 1.4 Proof and Possibility -- 1.5 Scope and Structure -- Framework and Background -- 2.1 Microhistory -- 2.2 Framework -- 2.3 Background for Studying Kiṣir-Aššur -- 2.4 Quantifying and Contextualizing Kiṣir-Aššur's Texts -- Kiṣir-Aššur's Magico-Medical Education as šamallû ṣeḫru -- 3.1 Complex Diagnoses in Kiṣir-Aššur's šamallû ṣeḫru Texts -- 3.2 Principles Understood Through Examples -- 3.3 The Head: BAM 9 -- 3.4 The "Strings" and "Inner" Body -- 3.5 Snakes, Scorpions and Horses: A Discussion of RA 15 pl. 76 -- 3.6 Gaining an Understanding of Anatomy and Physiology -- 3.7 Preparation for Other Duties as šamallû ṣeḫru -- 3.8 Summary -- Training in Anatomy and Physiology as šamallû ṣeḫru -- 4.1 The Role of Venom in Kiṣir-Aššur's Anatomical Understanding -- 4.2 Veterinarian Knowledge in Kiṣir-Aššur's Education -- 4.3 Excursus: Animal Variants of Human Illnesses -- 4.4 Animal and Human Physiology: The Reverse of RA 15 pl. 76 -- 4.5 Summary -- Further Apprenticeship: šamallû to mašmaššu ṣeḫru -- 5.2 The šamallû mašmaššu ṣeḫru-phase -- 5.3 The mašmaššu ṣeḫru-phase -- 5.4 Excursus: The ša Nabû tuklassu-phrase -- 5.5 Summary -- Kiṣir-Aššur's mašmaššu-phase -- 6.1 Texts with Colophons Including the Title mašmaššu -- 6.2 Making House Calls: Discussion of KAR 230 -- 6.3 Ritually Protecting the Houses of Clients: Discussion of KAR 298 -- 6.4 Namburbi-rituals and House Calls: KAL 4 no. 7 and LKA 115 -- 6.5 Other Technical Literature: CT 37 pl. 24f. -- 6.6 Summary -- Additional Texts that May Belong to the mašmaššu-phase -- 7.1 Omission and Inclusion of Titles -- 7.2 Tablets Without Kiṣir-Aššur's Professional Title -- 7.3 Tablets with Broken Colophons -- 7.4 The mašmaššu-phase and Purpose Statements -- 7.5 A Discussion of the Dated Tablet KAR 267 -- 7.6 Other Technical Literature: BAM 307 and ACh Supp. 2 24 -- 7.7 Summary -- Kiṣir-Aššur's mašmaš bīt Aššur-phase -- 8.1 The Title mašmaš bīt Aššur -- 8.2 Medical Texts from Kiṣir-Aššur's mašmaš bīt Aššur-phase -- 8.3 Tested Prescriptions Among the Medical Texts -- 8.4 Panaceas Among the Medical Texts -- 8.5 Ritual Texts from Kiṣir-Aššur's mašmaš bīt Aššur-phase -- 8.6 Texts Connected to the Aššur Temple -- 8.7 Summary -- Situating Kiṣir-Aššur's Knowledge Production -- 9.1 Kiṣir-Aššur's Overall Medical Focus -- 9.2 Numbered Nisḫu-extracts -- 9.3 Catch-lines and Duplicate Passages in Kiṣir-Aššur's Texts in Relation to the Therapeutic Series Ugu -- 9.4 The Exorcist's Manual (EM) -- 9.5 Kiṣir-Aššur and the Scholarly Traditions in Assur -- 9.6 Summary -- Synthesis and Conclusion -- Catalogue of Texts -- Edition of RA 15 pl. 76 -- Transliteration -- General Observations -- Commentary -- Bibliography 346 -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910420944303321 |
Arbøll Troels Pank | ||
Brill, 2021 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Practicing biomedicine at the Albert Schweitzer Hospital 1913-1965 : ideas and improvisations / / Tizian Zumthurm |
Autore | Zumthurm Tizian |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Brill, 2020 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (320 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 610.9 |
Collana | Clio Medica |
Soggetto topico |
Medicine
History |
Soggetto non controllato | History of medicine |
ISBN | 90-04-43697-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- 1 Utilizing a Colonial Archive in Gunsbach, Alsace -- 2 Theorizing Hospitals in Africa and the Practice of Biomedicine -- 3 The Context: Trade, Politics, and Health in Colonial Lambaréné -- 4 Albert Schweitzer and His Hospital in Lambaréné: a Short Historiography -- 1 Between Pragmatism and Order: Medical Organization and Daily Routine -- 1 The Hospital Prior to 1927: Establishment and Adaptation -- 2 Patient Numbers: Reflecting Global and Local Events in Orderly Records -- 3 Patients and Their Stay: Strict Conditions, Varied Degrees of Enforcement -- 4 Patient Motivation: Conceptions of Health and Other Treatments -- 5 Staff from Europe: Clear Guidelines and Flexible Duties -- 6 African Staff: Versatile Training and Reliable Service -- 7 Staff in Comparison -- 8 Infrastructure: Necessity and Maintenance -- 9 Conclusion -- 2 In and Out of Control: Technologies and Patients in Surgery -- 1 Surgery, Technology, and Control -- 2 Surgery at the Albert Schweitzer Hospital: Context and Development -- 3 Controlling the Surgical Arena: Actors and Organization -- 4 Technologies of Control: the Example of Lamps -- 5 Controlling Bacteria: Asepsis and Manual Labor -- 6 Controlling Patients via Technology: The Example of Anesthesia -- 7 Beyond the Operating Theater: Limits and Implications of Control -- 8 Conclusion -- 3 Dimensions of Ignorance: Discourses and Practices of Obstetrics -- 1 Depopulation, Domesticity, Ignorance: Framing Maternity Care in Colonial Africa -- 2 Maternity Services in Colonial Gabon and at the Albert Schweitzer Hospital -- 3 Ignoring Training: Recruitment Priorities -- 4 Giving Birth at and Outside the Hospital -- 5 Ignoring Context: Maternity Care as a Medical Service -- 6 Key Areas of Ignorance: Medication and Feeding -- 7 Conclusion -- 4 Trial and Error: Drugs and the Treatment of Infectious Diseases -- 1 Experiments in a Laboratory? The Treatment of Leprosy in Colonial Africa -- 2 Leprosy in Lambaréné -- 3 Dysentery in Africa and Lambaréné -- 4 Trials and Errors: the Use of Pharmaceuticals at the Albert Schweitzer Hospital -- 5 Conclusion -- 5 Healing and ‘Civilizing’: Community and Safety in Psychiatric Care -- 1 Psychiatric Services and Ideology in Colonial Africa and at the Hospital -- 2 The Mentally Ill in Colonial Gabon and at the Albert Schweitzer Hospital -- 3 Treating the Mentally Ill at the Albert Schweitzer Hospital: Drugs and Community -- 4 Accommodating the Mentally Ill at the Hospital: Perspectives on Safety -- 5 Conclusion -- 6 Conclusions -- 1 Connecting Concepts: the Incoherence of Biomedical Practices -- 2 The Practice of Global Biomedicine: Schweitzer and the Value of the Local -- 3 Taxonomies of Global Health and the Albert Schweitzer Hospital -- Bibliography -- Archival Sources -- Interviews -- Published References -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910420945303321 |
Zumthurm Tizian | ||
Brill, 2020 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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That Savage Gaze : Wolves in the Nineteenth-Century Russian Imagination / / Ian M. Helfant |
Autore | Helfant Ian M. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Boston, MA : , : Academic Studies Press, , [2018] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (200 pages) |
Disciplina | 599.773 |
Collana | Unknown Nineteenth Century |
Soggetto topico |
Gray wolf - Russia - History - 19th century
Gray wolf - Control - Social aspects - Russia - History - 19th century Russian literature - 19th century - History and criticism |
Soggetto non controllato |
Borzois
Ecocriticism History of medicine Human-animal studies Hunting Rabies Russia Wolves |
ISBN | 1-61811-866-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- A Note on Translation and Transliteration -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1. Harnessing the Domestic to Confront the Wild: Borzoi Wolf Hunting and Masculine Aggression in War and Peace -- CHAPTER 2. The Rise of Hunting Societies, the Professionalization of Wolf Expertise, and the Legal Sanctioning of Predator Control with Guns and Poison -- CHAPTER 3. Chekhov's "Hydrophobia," Kuzminskaya's "The Rabid Wolf," and the Fear of Bestial Madness on the Eve of Pasteur's Panacea -- CHAPTER 4. Fissures in the Flock: Wolf Hounding, the Humane Society, and the Literary Redemption of a Feared Predator -- Conclusion -- Endnotes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910793119103321 |
Helfant Ian M. | ||
Boston, MA : , : Academic Studies Press, , [2018] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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That Savage Gaze : Wolves in the Nineteenth-Century Russian Imagination / / Ian M. Helfant |
Autore | Helfant Ian M. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Boston, MA : , : Academic Studies Press, , [2018] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (200 pages) |
Disciplina | 599.773 |
Collana | Unknown Nineteenth Century |
Soggetto topico |
Gray wolf - Russia - History - 19th century
Gray wolf - Control - Social aspects - Russia - History - 19th century Russian literature - 19th century - History and criticism |
Soggetto non controllato |
Borzois
Ecocriticism History of medicine Human-animal studies Hunting Rabies Russia Wolves |
ISBN | 1-61811-866-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- A Note on Translation and Transliteration -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1. Harnessing the Domestic to Confront the Wild: Borzoi Wolf Hunting and Masculine Aggression in War and Peace -- CHAPTER 2. The Rise of Hunting Societies, the Professionalization of Wolf Expertise, and the Legal Sanctioning of Predator Control with Guns and Poison -- CHAPTER 3. Chekhov's "Hydrophobia," Kuzminskaya's "The Rabid Wolf," and the Fear of Bestial Madness on the Eve of Pasteur's Panacea -- CHAPTER 4. Fissures in the Flock: Wolf Hounding, the Humane Society, and the Literary Redemption of a Feared Predator -- Conclusion -- Endnotes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910826601303321 |
Helfant Ian M. | ||
Boston, MA : , : Academic Studies Press, , [2018] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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V. Galeni in Hippocratis epidemiarum librum commentaria. . Volume 3,1, Galeni In Hippocratis Epidemiarum librum VI commentariorum I–VIII versio Arabica ; Commentaria I–III / / Uwe Vagelpohl |
Autore | Galenus |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter Akademie Forschung, , [2022] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (588 p.) |
Disciplina | 610 |
Collana | Corpus Medicorum Graecorum – Supplementum Orientale |
Soggetto topico | Epidemics |
Soggetto non controllato |
Arabistic
Galen History of medicine Medicine in antiquity |
ISBN | 3-11-077499-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | ara |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INTRODUCTION -- Edition and translation -- CONSPECTUS SIGLORUM ET COMPENDIORUM -- Part I -- Part II -- Part III |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910645953703321 |
Galenus | ||
Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter Akademie Forschung, , [2022] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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V. Galeni in Hippocratis epidemiarum librum commentaria. . Volume 3,1, Galeni In Hippocratis Epidemiarum librum VI commentariorum I–VIII versio Arabica ; Commentaria I–III / / Uwe Vagelpohl |
Autore | Galenus |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter Akademie Forschung, , [2022] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (588 p.) |
Disciplina | 610 |
Collana | Corpus Medicorum Graecorum – Supplementum Orientale |
Soggetto topico | Epidemics |
Soggetto non controllato |
Arabistic
Galen History of medicine Medicine in antiquity |
ISBN | 3-11-077499-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | ara |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INTRODUCTION -- Edition and translation -- CONSPECTUS SIGLORUM ET COMPENDIORUM -- Part I -- Part II -- Part III |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996500668103316 |
Galenus | ||
Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter Akademie Forschung, , [2022] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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Who Shall Take Care of Our Sick? : Roman Catholic Sisters and the Development of Catholic Hospitals in New York City / / Bernadette Mccauley |
Autore | McCauley Bernadette |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xiii, 146 p. :) : ill. ; |
Disciplina | 362.11/097471 |
Soggetto topico |
Hospitals, Religious - New York (State) - New York - History
Catholic hospitals - New York (State) - New York - History |
Soggetto non controllato | History of medicine |
ISBN |
0-8018-8216-8
1-4214-2762-1 1-4214-2936-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Foundations -- Sisters -- Care and treatment -- Hospital finances -- Hospital sisters and modernization. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910524881803321 |
McCauley Bernadette | ||
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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