Chapter Depersonalized Case Histories in the Babylonian Therapeutic Compendia
Standard histories of medicine identify Hippocratic texts such as Epidemics as the earliest medical case histories in human history. In contrast to the Hippocratic case histories, it is often stated that Babylonian medicine made no use of individual case histories. In this paper, I investigate '...
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Berlin/Boston
De Gruyter
2015
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