The Image of Mesopotamian Divine Healers
Healing Goddesses and the Legitimization of Professional as?s in the Mesopotamian Medical Marketplace
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Product details:
- Publisher BRILL
- Date of Publication 1 April 2022
- ISBN 9789004512405
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages412 pages
- Size 235x155 mm
- Weight 834 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This book presents the first in-depth analysis of Mesopotamian healing goddesses and their relationship to as?s, ?healers?. Through this, Sibbing-Plantholt provides unprecedented insight into the diverse Mesopotamian medical marketplace and how professional healers operating within it legitimized themselves.
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This volume exposes one of the world?s oldest medical marketplaces and the emergence of medical professionalization within it. Through an unprecedented analysis of the Mesopotamian healing goddesses as well as as?s, a diverse group of ?healers?, Irene Sibbing-Plantholt demonstrates that from the Middle Babylonian period onwards, the goddess Gula was employed as a divine legitimization model for scholarly, professional as?s. With this work, Sibbing-Plantholt provides a unique insight in processes of medical competition and legitimization in ancient Mesopotamia, which speak to similar processes in other societies.
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Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
1 Newly Understanding Healing Goddesses and as&&&x00FB;s: Theory and Methods
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Rethinking Healing Goddesses
1.3 Rethinking Mesopotamian Healers
Part&&&x00A0;1 The Various Healing Goddesses and Their Relationship to as&&&x00FB;s
2 The Origins of the Healing Goddess Gula
2.1 Gu&&&x2082;
-la&&&x2082; and Gula in the 3rd Millennium B.C.E.
2.2 Disentangling Gula, Gu&&&x2082;
-la&&&x2082; and (U)kulla(b)
2.3 Gula&&&x2019;s Involvement in Healing and Midwifery in the Ur&&&x00A0;III Period
3 Gula in the 2nd and 1st Millennia B.C.E.
3.1 Gula in the Old Babylonian Period
3.2 Gula in the 2nd Half of the 2nd Millennium B.C.E.
3.3 Gula in the 1st Millennium B.C.E.
3.4 Conclusion
4 Gula Compared to Other Healing Goddesses
4.1 Ninkarrak
4.2 Ninisina
4.3 Bau
4.4 Nintinuga
4.5 Meme
4.6 Comparative Analysis of the Healing Goddesses
Part&&&x00A0;2 As&&&x00FB;s in the Mesopotamian Medical Marketplace
5 An Overview of the Mesopotamian Medical Marketplace
5.1 Lay and Domestic Healing
5.2 Folk Healing
5.3 Professional Healers: The Scholars
6 Rethinking the Term &&&x201C;as&&&x00FB;&&&x201D;
6.1 As&&&x00FB; as a General Term: &&&x201C;Healer&&&x201D;
6.2 Different Types of as&&&x00FB;s and Intersections with Other Healers
6.3 The Functions and Work Environments of as&&&x00FB;s
6.4 Conclusion
Part&&&x00A0;3 Legitimacy in the Medical Marketplace: Divine and Human Professional as&&&x00FB;s
7 Legitimization as a Response to Competition and the Demands of Clientele
7.1 Medical Competition and the Need for Legitimization
7.2 Promoting Erudition as a Scholarly Response to Medical Competition
7.3 The Professional As&&&x00FB;s&&&x2019; Solution to Competition: A Divine Image
8 The Process of Gula Becoming the Divine Legitimization of Professional as&&&x00FB;s
8.1 Healing Goddesses and Legitimization before the Middle Babylonian Period
8.2 Gula Legitimizing Professional as&&&x00FB;s from the Middle Babylonian Period
8.3 Gula Representing Competition between Professional as&&&x00FB;s and Other Healers
9 Conclusion and Suggestions for Future Research
Bibliography
Index
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