Mental symptoms in the Akkadian diagnostic handbook : a study of patterns in the description of depression, anxiety, and madness

This study is concerned with reconstructing patterns in the description of mental distress, disturbance, and disorder in diagnostic descriptions from medical texts recorded in Akkadian from the first millennium BCE. In the service of this aim, the study also offers a theoretical framework for the ap...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Al-Rashid, Moudhy
Other Authors: Dahl, Jacob L.
Published: University of Oxford 2014
Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.730608