Disease in Babylonia

Disease in Babylonia (Cuneiform Monographs)
by I. L. Finkel (Editor), M. J. Geller (Editor)

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* Hardcover: 228 pages
* Publisher: BRILL; 1 edition (September 21, 2007)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 9004124012

Book Description
The present collection of articles on disease in Babylonia is the first such volume to appear providing detailed information derived from published and unpublished medical texts in cuneiform script from the second and first millennia BC.

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African Indigenous Religions and Disease Causation

African Indigenous Religions and Disease Causation
by David Westerlund (Author)

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* Paperback: 240 pages
* Publisher: BRILL (July 31, 2006)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 9004144331

Book Description
This comparative and historical work provides rich material on religion and disease etiologies among five African peoples (San, Maasai, Sukuma, Kongo and Yoruba) and discusses possible reasons for an important shift from spiritual beings such as deities to living humans like witches as agents of disease.

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