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Medicine and Religion in Ancient Egypt
Author(s) -
Zucconi Laura M.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
religion compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.113
H-Index - 1
ISSN - 1749-8171
DOI - 10.1111/j.1749-8171.2006.00004.x
Subject(s) - ancient egypt , traditional medicine , power (physics) , balance (ability) , psychology , medicine , classics , history , physics , quantum mechanics , neuroscience
Seminal works on ancient Egyptian medicine tend to treat the field as distinct from religious practices, often fixating on the medical papyri as exemplifying either rational or magical treatments. Refocusing the study towards the ancient Egyptian conceptions of physiology and disease etiology shows that their medical practices integrated religious concepts such as maat (balance) and heka (power). Therapeutic measures and titles for healers, swnw , wab priest, and sau , further underscored the physical interchange between the mortal and divine worlds for the ancient Egyptians.