Medicine and Religion in Ancient Egypt

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Ancient Egypt and Archaeology History of Medicine Studies Paleopathology and ancient diseases

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Abstract 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.

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2001The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt 1914The journal of Egyptian archaeology 1986The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead 1995A Dictionary of Ancient Egypt 1996Ancient Egyptian medicine 1983The physicians of Pharaonic Egypt

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