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Health Care and Epidemics in Antiquity: The Example of Ancient Mesopotamia

Health Care and Epidemics in Antiquity: The Example of Ancient Mesopotamia. Dr. Walter Farber. Professor of Assyriology Oriental Institute & Dept. of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations – University of Chicago (1980) Academic Background: Ph.D , University of Tübingen, 1973

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Health Care and Epidemics in Antiquity: The Example of Ancient Mesopotamia

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  1. Health Care and Epidemics in Antiquity: The Example of Ancient Mesopotamia

  2. Dr. Walter Farber • Professor of Assyriology • Oriental Institute & Dept. of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations – University of Chicago (1980) • Academic Background: • Ph.D, University of Tübingen, 1973 • Dr. Phil. Habil,University of Munich, 1979 • Special Interests: Akkadian Language, Akkadian Literature, Mesopotamian Religion, Magic, and Medicine • Member: Chicago Assyrian Dictionary (CAD), and co-editor Mesopotamian Civilizations

  3. Health Care and Epidemics in Antiquity The Example of Ancient Mesopotamia Walter Farber

  4. Oriental Institute Mesopotamian Gallery

  5. Diseases and Medicine in Ancient BabyloniaSources

  6. Pazuzu

  7. The Code of Hammurapi

  8. Diseases and Medicine in Ancient BabyloniaDiseases: Diagnostics and Conceptualization

  9. Diseases and Medicine in Ancient BabyloniaDiseases: Diagnostics and Conceptualization

  10. Pazuzu Lamashtu

  11. Diseases and Medicine in Ancient BabyloniaHealing Approaches

  12. Gula, the goddess of healing, and her dog

  13. The Gula Temple in Nippur

  14. Epidemics in Ancient Mesopotamia

  15. The End

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