Systems of Classification in Premodern Medical Cultures: Sickness, Health, and Local Epistemologies - Paperback
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Systems of Classification in Premodern Medical Cultures puts historical illness concepts in cross-cultural perspective, investigating perceptions, constructions and experiences of health and illness, from antiquity to the 17th century.
Ulrike Steinert is a postdoctoral researcher in the Research Training Group 1876 'Early Concepts of Humans and Nature' at Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany. Her research and publications focus on the history of Mesopotamian medicine and culture, the Akkadian language, women's health, gender and body concepts. She is the author of a study on the body, self and identity in Mesopotamian texts, entitled Aspekte des Menschseins im Alten Mesopotamien. Eine Studie zu Person und Identität im 2. und 1. Jt. v. Chr. (2012) and is currently preparing a monograph on Women's Health Care in Ancient Mesopotamia: An Edition of the Textual Sources.
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