Astro-Medicine: Astrology and Medicine, East and West

Abstract

The book is a collection of essays offering a glance at the contacts between astrology and medicine across different cultural contexts, and at different periods of time. The volume includes the following articles: Nils P. Heeßel, “Astrological Medicine in Babylonia”; Vivian Nutton, “Greek Medical Astrology and the Boundaries of Medicine”; Hilary M. Carey, “Medieval Latin Astrology and the Cycles of Life: William English and English Medicine in Cambridge, Trinity College MS O.5.26”; Concetta Pennuto, “The Debate on Critical Days in Renaissance Italy”; Y. Tzvi Langermann, “The Astral Connections of Critical Days. Some Late Antique Sources Preserved in Hebrew and Arabic”; Anna Akasoy, “Arabic Physiognomy as a Link between Astrology and Medicine”; Vivienne Lo, “Heavenly Bodies in Early China: Astro-Physiology in Context”; Audrius Beinorius, “Astral Hermeneutics: Astrology and Medicine in India”; Vesna A. Wallace, “A Convergence of Medical and Astro-Sciences in Indian Tantric Buddhism: A Case of the Kalacakratantra”; Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim, “Tibetan Medical Astrology”; Dorian Gieseler Greenbaum, “From Lilly to Steiner and Jung: Temperament in Astrology and Psychology, Seventeenth and Twentieth Centuries.