Wee, John Z. (Yale/USA) – Medical Commentaries and the Practice of Diagnosis in Mesopotamia

This dissertation involves the edition, translation, and explanation of medical commentaries pertaining to the Diagnostic Series SA.GIG, along with selected commentaries on the therapeutic texts. It examines how canonical descriptions of medical signs may have been interpreted in actual diagnostic practice, as well as the dynamics of knowledge assumptions and appeals to authority implied by the medical commentaries, especially those of Anu-iks.ur and his family from the city of Uruk.