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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Main Author: Cale Johnson, J. (auth)
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Published: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2015
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