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The Comparable Body - Analogy and Metaphor in Ancient Mesopotamian, Egyptian, and Greco-Roman Medicine |
John Z Wee (Editors)
Brill
The Comparable Body - Analogy and Metaphor in Ancient Mesopotamian, Egyptian, and Greco-Roman Medicine
Chapter 2 From Head to Toe: Listing the Body in Cuneiform Texts
Authors

M. Erica Couto-Ferreira

ARI Id

1674442604606_9547166

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Pages

43–71

Chapter URL

https://brill.com/display/book/edcoll/9789004356771/BP000014.xml

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Copyright page
John Z. Wee
Acknowledgements
John Z. Wee
List of Figures and Tables
John Z. Wee
Abbreviations
John Z. Wee
Transliteration Notes
John Z. Wee
Periodization of Ancient Mesopotamia
John Z. Wee
Contributors
John Z. Wee
Introduction: To What May I Liken Metaphor?
John Z. Wee
1–11
Chapter 1 Analogy and Metaphor in Ancient Medicine and the Ancient Egyptian Conceptualisation of Heat in the Body*
Rune Nyord
12–42
Chapter 2 From Head to Toe: Listing the Body in Cuneiform Texts
M. Erica Couto-Ferreira
43–71
Chapter 3 The Stuff of Causation: Etiological Metaphor and Pathogenic Channeling in Babylonian Medicine 1
J. Cale Johnson
72–121
Chapter 4 Aristotle’s Heart and the Heartless Man
Lesley Dean-Jones
122–141
Chapter 5 Earthquake and Epilepsy: The Body Geologic in the Hippocratic Treatise On the Sacred Disease
John Z. Wee
142–167
Chapter 6 The Lineage of “Bloodlines”: Synecdoche, Metonymy, Medicine, and More
Paul T. Keyser
168–203
Chapter 7 Eye Metaphors, Analogies and Similes within Mesopotamian Magico-Medical Texts*
Strahil V. Panayotov
204–246
Chapter 8 The Experience and Description of Pain in Aelius Aristides’ Hieroi Logoi
Janet Downie
247–274
Chapter 9 Concepts of the Female Body in Mesopotamian Gynecological Texts
Ulrike Steinert
275–357
Chapter 10 Pure Life: The Limits of the Vegetal Analogy in the Hippocratics and Galen
Brooke Holmes
358–386
Chapter 11 Animal, Vegetable, Metaphor: Plotinus’s Liver and the Roots of Biological Identity
Courtney Ann Roby
387–414
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