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Ancient Mesopotamia: The Eden That Never Was. Susan Pollock. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999.259 pp.

The origin and growth of cities in antiquity. The origin and growth of cities forms one of the most important chapters in human history. In this volume, 17 researchers present archaeological, epigraphic and textual data on the rise of urbanism in the ancient Near Eastern world, Cyprus to Mesopotamia and from Crete to Egypt. Topics addressed include the influence of agriculture intensification, of trade, of craft specialization and of writing on the rise of cities. The roles of cultural elites, of ideologies and of relations between proximal urban centres are also examined. The contributors to

The origin and growth of cities in antiquity. The origin and growth of cities forms one of the most important chapters in human history. In this volume, 17 researchers present archaeological, epigraphic and textual data on the rise of urbanism in the ancient Near Eastern world, Cyprus to Mesopotamia and from Crete to Egypt. Topics addressed include the influence of agriculture intensification, of trade, of craft specialization and of writing on the rise of cities. The roles of cultural elites, of ideologies and of relations between proximal urban centres are also examined. The contributors to

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword by Candida Moss -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- Medical Anthropology -- Health -- Disease and Illness -- Explanatory Model of Illness or Cultural Concepts -- Healers -- Patients -- Overview of Chapters -- Mesopotamia -- Egypt -- Canaan -- Hittites -- Classical Greece -- Hellenism and Hellenistic Medicine: A Brief Introduction -- Ptolemaic Egypt -- Etruscans and Rome -- Second Temple and Early Rabbinic Judaism -- Persia -- Absence of Christianity -- 2. Mesopotamian Medicine -- Location and History -- Religion and Culture -- Cosmology -- Mesopotamian Gods and Goddesses of Disease and Healing -- Sources -- Texts -- Archaeology -- Cultural Concepts -- Anatomy and Physiology -- Disease Etiology -- Restoration of Health -- Illnesses -- Disease -- Trauma -- Disability -- Conditional States -- Healers -- Asû -- Ašipu -- 3. Egyptian Medicine -- Location and History -- Religion and Culture -- Cosmology -- Egyptian Gods and Goddesses of Disease and Healing -- Sources -- Texts -- Archaeology -- Cultural Concepts -- Anatomy and Physiology -- Disease Etiology -- Restoration of Health -- Illness -- Disease -- Trauma -- Disability -- Conditional States -- Healers -- Swnw -- Wab Priest -- Sau -- 4. Canaanite Medicine -- Location and History -- Religion and Culture -- Cosmology -- Canaanite Gods and Goddesses of Disease and Healing -- Sources -- Texts -- Archaeology -- Cultural Concepts -- Anatomy and Physiology -- Disease Etiology -- Restoration of Health -- Illness -- Disease -- Trauma -- Disability -- Conditional States -- Healers -- Priests -- Prophets -- 5. Hittite Medicine -- Location and History -- Religion and Culture -- Cosmology -- Hittite Gods and Goddesses of Disease and Healing -- Sources -- Texts -- Archaeology -- Cultural Concepts.

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