An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2022 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

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BECKMAN, Gary Michael

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Hittite birth rituals. 2nd revised edition.

Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1983.

"Owing to a paucity of relevant sources, we know rather little about Hittite medical practice, but it is clear that native therapies relied as much on magic as upon what moderns would recognize as medicine. Practitioners from Babylonia and Egypt, whose expertise was acknowledged to be superior to that of local physicians, were welcome at the Hittite court" (G. Beckman, https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah30208, accessed 06-2018).



Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › Anatolia, ANCIENT MEDICINE › Mesopotamia, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Turkey, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS