Diagnosis and Anatomy
October 12-14, 2014

Contact/Organizer: M.J. Geller
Freie Universität Berlin, BabMed – Babylonian Medicine

Anatomy-based diagnosis (specifically related to parts of the human body) is a general theme in Babylonian medicine which we wish to explore in our first BabMed Workshop.
The distinction between anatomy-based (versus non-anatomical) diagnosis is fundamental and goes to the heart of the concept of disease in Babylonia. Diseases are either corporeal (e.g. lung-disease, foot-disease, kidney-disease), or more general, such as fevers or maladies d'esprit (e.g. epilepsy-like diseases, stroke, psychosomatic ailments, etc.).
The purpose of the first BabMed workshop is to explore such distinctions further.

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Programme

Sunday, October 12, 2014
6.30 pm Welcome Dinner
Alter Krug Dahlem
Königin-Luise-Straße 52, 14195 Berlin - Zehlendorf
phone:+49 30 832 7000
http://alter-krug-berlin.de

The venue is located right next to the station "Dahlem Dorf" on the underground line U3 .

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Monday, October 13, 2014
9.45 am TOPOI Haus, Freie Universität Dahlem
Hittorfstraße 18, 141295 Berlin
Ubahn station: "Thielplatz" on the underground line U3 .
For a map please click here.

10.00 am Daniel Schwemer, Universität Würzburg
"The rapādu-plant dyes the steppe: a new incantation about a Babylonian medicinal flower“

10:45 am Coffee break served at TOPOI house

11.00 am Nils Heeßel, Universität Würzburg
"Ein neuer therapeutischer Text zu Rektalkrankheiten"

11:45 am Henry Stadhouders, Utrecht University
"The Symptoms of Divine Anger: STT 95 and its parallels."

12:45 pm Lunch break, finger food served at TOPOI house

1.45 pm Annie Attia/Gilles Buisson, Eds Le Journal des Médecines Cunéiformes
“Descriptive and explanatory levels in clinical sentences in the therapeutic texts from Assur.
A preliminary study."

2.30 pm Heinrich von Staden, Princeton University
"Anatomy and Diagnosis in the Greek Tradition"

3.30 pm Tea break, served at TOPOI house

4.00 pm Transfer to Botanischer Garten
4.30 pm Botanischer Garten Berlin
“Medical Plants”, Guided tour with Ms. A Senska
Duration: 1.5 hrs.

6.30 pm Dinner with all participants at Restaurant Luise
Königin-Luise-Straße 40 – 42, 14195 Berlin
phone:+49-{0}30- 841 888 – 0
www.luise-dahlem.de

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Tuesday, October 14, 2014

09.30 am BabMed Team, Freie Universität Berlin
Reading Session: “A text of the Assur Medical Catalogue”

11.00 am Coffee break served at TOPOI House

11.30 am Marten Stol, University of Leiden
Reading session 1: “Mouth diseases”

12.30 pm Lunch break at Harnack Haus, Dahlem
Harnack-Haus, Tagungsstätte der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
Ihnestr. 16-20, 14195 Berlin
phone:+49 30 8413-3800

14.00 pm Marten Stol, University of Leiden
Reading session 2: “Lung diseases”

3.00 pm Irving Finkel, British Museum
Reading session 1: “Unpublished Old Babylonian medical tablets from the British Museum”

4.00 pm Tea break, served at TOPOI house

4.30 pm Irving Finkel, British Museum
Reading session 2: “Unpublished Old Babylonian medical tablets from the British Museum”

5.30 pm Closing note

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Conference Hotel
Campus Hotel Seminaris, Takustraße 39, 14195 Berlin
phone: +49 (0) 30 -55 77 97,
www.seminaris.de

Wireless Network Access:
WiFi: ‘Conference’
Password: 25zense3
Conference participants should connect to the wireless networt with de SSID 'conference' and open an arbitrary web page. Instead of that page a form will appear in which the user can enter the key. Access too wireless netowrk will then be granted, und the user will be automatically forwarded to the web page that was originally called.
Please note, that 'conference' is an unsafe open network. Connections are not encrypted.

Berlin Public Transport information and Berlin address finder/maps: www.bvg.de

Berlin Taxi, 'Wuerfelfunk' +49-30-21 01 01
Tegel Airport-Dahlem: 35 to 40 mins, fare approx. 25 EUR
Schoenefeld Airport-Dahlem: 50 to 60 mins, fare approx. 35 EUR

Workshop Venue
Freie Universität Berlin
TOPOI Haus
Library/Ground Floor
Hittorfstraße 18, 14915 Berlin-Dahlem

BabMed office
Agnes Kloocke and Birgit Lehmhagen
Freie Universität Berlin
BabMed - Babylonian Medicine
Hittorfstraße 18, Room 108
14195 Berlin
phone:+49-(0)30 838 58038