CiNii 図書 - The image of Mesopotamian divine healers : healing goddesses and the legitimization of professional asûs in the Mesopotamian medical marketplace

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 asus, 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 asus. 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.

Acknowledgements Abbreviations 1 Newly Understanding Healing Goddesses and asus: Theory and Methods 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Rethinking Healing Goddesses 1.3 Rethinking Mesopotamian Healers Part 1 The Various Healing Goddesses and Their Relationship to asus 2 The Origins of the Healing Goddess Gula 2.1 Gu2-la2 and Gula in the 3rd Millennium B.C.E. 2.2 Disentangling Gula, Gu2-la2 and (U)kulla(b) 2.3 Gula's Involvement in Healing and Midwifery in the Ur 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 2 Asus 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 "asu" 6.1 Asu as a General Term: "Healer" 6.2 Different Types of asus and Intersections with Other Healers 6.3 The Functions and Work Environments of asus 6.4 Conclusion Part 3 Legitimacy in the Medical Marketplace: Divine and Human Professional asus 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 Asus' Solution to Competition: A Divine Image 8 The Process of Gula Becoming the Divine Legitimization of Professional asus 8.1 Healing Goddesses and Legitimization before the Middle Babylonian Period 8.2 Gula Legitimizing Professional asus from the Middle Babylonian Period 8.3 Gula Representing Competition between Professional asus and Other Healers 9 Conclusion and Suggestions for Future Research Bibliography Index

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