She Will Give Birth Easily: Therapeutic Approaches to Childbirth in 1st Millennium BCE Cuneiform Sources (2014)
Couto-Ferreira, M. Erica (Author)
Dynamis: Acta Hispanica ad Medicinae Scientiarumque Historiam Illustrandam
Volume: 34, no.2
Issue: 2
Pages: 289-315
Publication date: 2014
Language: English
Edition Details: Part of a special section on Childbirth and Women's Healthcare Across Cultures.
This article offers, in the first place, an overview on women's healthcare in relation to chilbirth in ancient Mesopotamia, as an introduction that helps to evaluate the meaning of the 7th century Assur text BAM 248 within therapeutic cuneiform texts on childbirth. We proceed to analuse the variety of therapeutic appraoches to childbirth present in BAM 248, which brings together various healing devices to help a woman give birth quickly and safely. We analyse the text in its entirety as an example of intersection between the complexity of remedies, in the materia medica employed, in the methods of preparation and application, even in the technical knowledge required and also, most probably, in the social origin and/or use of the remedies in question.
...MoreArticle Andreeva, Anna; Couto-Ferreira, Erica; Töpfer, Susanne (2014) Childbirth and Women's Healthcare in Pre-Modern Societies: An Assessment. Dynamis: Acta Hispanica ad Medicinae Scientiarumque Historiam Illustrandam (pp. 279-287).
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