Markham J. Geller is Professor of Semitic Languages at University College London and Professor for the History of Science at the Free University Berlin. He is the author of Evil Demons: Canonical Utukkū Lemnūtu Incantations (2007) and Melothesia in Babylonia (2014), editor of Melammu, the Ancient World in an Age of Globalization (2014), and co-editor of Disease in Babylonia(2007) and Imagining Creation (2008).

• List of Illustrations viiiList of Abbreviations xAcknowledgments xiiIntroduction to Babylonian Medicine and Magic 11 Medicine as Science 112 Who Did What to Whom? 433 The Politics of Medicine 564 Medicine as Literature 895 Medicine and Philosophy 1186 Medical Training: MD or PhD? 1307 Uruk Medical Commentaries 1418 Medicine and Magic as Independent Approaches to Healing 161Appendix: An Edition of a Medical Commentary 168Notes 177References 202Subject Index 211Selective Index of Akkadian and Greek Words 217Index of Akkadian Personal Names 220

Markham J. Geller is Professor of Semitic Languages at University College London and Professor for the History of Science at the Free University Berlin. He is the author of Evil Demons: Canonical Utukkū Lemnūtu Incantations (2007) and Melothesia in Babylonia (2014), editor of Melammu, the Ancient World in an Age of Globalization (2014), and co-editor of Disease in Babylonia(2007) and Imagining Creation (2008).

• List of Illustrations viiiList of Abbreviations xAcknowledgments xiiIntroduction to Babylonian Medicine and Magic 11 Medicine as Science 112 Who Did What to Whom? 433 The Politics of Medicine 564 Medicine as Literature 895 Medicine and Philosophy 1186 Medical Training: MD or PhD? 1307 Uruk Medical Commentaries 1418 Medicine and Magic as Independent Approaches to Healing 161Appendix: An Edition of a Medical Commentary 168Notes 177References 202Subject Index 211Selective Index of Akkadian and Greek Words 217Index of Akkadian Personal Names 220

Markham J. Geller is Professor of Semitic Languages at University College London and Professor for the History of Science at the Free University Berlin. He is the author of Evil Demons: Canonical Utukkū Lemnūtu Incantations (2007) and Melothesia in Babylonia (2014), editor of Melammu, the Ancient World in an Age of Globalization (2014), and co-editor of Disease in Babylonia(2007) and Imagining Creation (2008).

• List of Illustrations viiiList of Abbreviations xAcknowledgments xiiIntroduction to Babylonian Medicine and Magic 11 Medicine as Science 112 Who Did What to Whom? 433 The Politics of Medicine 564 Medicine as Literature 895 Medicine and Philosophy 1186 Medical Training: MD or PhD? 1307 Uruk Medical Commentaries 1418 Medicine and Magic as Independent Approaches to Healing 161Appendix: An Edition of a Medical Commentary 168Notes 177References 202Subject Index 211Selective Index of Akkadian and Greek Words 217Index of Akkadian Personal Names 220