TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wee,John Z.
TI  - Knowledge and rhetoric in medical commentary: ancient Mesopotamian commentaries on a handbook of medical diagnosis (Sa-gig) 
T2  - Cuneiform monographs,
SN  - 9789004417533
AV  - R135.3 .W44 2019
U1  - 610.935 23
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Esagil-kīn-apli
KW  - S̄a-gig
KW  - Medicine, Assyro-Babylonian
KW  - Diagnosis
KW  - Early works to 1800
KW  - Communication in medicine
KW  - Iraq
KW  - History
KW  - Cuneiform inscriptions, Sumerian
KW  - Translations into English
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Médecine assyro-babylonienne
KW  - Diagnostics
KW  - Ouvrages avant 1800
KW  - Communication en médecine
KW  - Irak
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Inscriptions cunéiformes sumériennes
KW  - Histoire et critique
KW  - diagnosis
KW  - aat
KW  - fast
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - Early works
KW  - Translations
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Volume 1. Knowledge and rhetoric in medical commentary -- Volume 2. Mesopotamian Commentaries on the diagnostic handbook Sa-gig
N2  - "Knowledge and Rhetoric in Medical Commentary is intended for historians of medicine and interpretation, and explores the dynamic between scholastic rhetoric and medical knowledge in ancient commentaries on a Mesopotamian Diagnostic Handbook. In line with commentators' self-fashioning as experts of diverse disciplines, commentaries display intertextuality involving a variety of lexical, astronomical, religious, magic, and literary compositions, while employing patterns of argumentation that resist categorization within any single branch of knowledge. Commentators' choices of topics and comments, however, sought to harmonize atypical language and ideas in the Handbook with conventional ways of perceiving and describing the sick body in therapeutic recipes. Scholastic rhetoric-supposedly unfettered to any discipline-served in fact as a pretext for affirming current forms of medical knowledge. Mesopotamian Commentaries on the Diagnostic Handbook Sa-gig is intended for specialists in cuneiform studies, and includes a cuneiform edition, English translation, and notes on medical lexicography for thirty Sa-gig commentary tablets and fragments, as well as a study on technical notations recurring in these commentaries. Within the Cuneiform Monographs series, this book represents a companion volume to Knowledge and Rhetoric in Medical Commentary (Brill, 2019)"--
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