2008/06/18 by Eleanor Robson · 2 citations
Arts and Humanities · #Ancient Near East History #Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies #Ancient Egypt and Archaeology
paper · doi:10.1111/j.1749-8171.2008.00082.x
openalex publication_date 2008/06/18 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/22
Abstract The study of Mesopotamian medicine, while unprecedentedly productive, is stuck in a historiographical rut that cognate disciplines left some years ago. I review the current state of the field from a peripheral vantage point and use case studies from Sumerian literature and Neo‐Assyrian royal letters to exemplify alternative approaches that do not sacrifice philological rigour for anthropological attention to socio‐intellectual context.