last update: 10/5/11
History 370
Names, Places
and Important Terms to Remember
This page contains series of listings of names, places, and terms that
were mentioned in class as part of discussions or lectures, and which
are deemed important enough for students to remember and to consider as
they review for exams and quizzes. These terms are listed here
chronologically according to the date in which they were defined in
class or were written on the class blackboard.
First day of class (8/23)
- deconstruction
- perceptions of Egypt
- Alexandria
- barbaroi (Gr.), earlier: "non-Greek speaker," later: "barbarian"
- barbaron sophia (Gr.), "barbarian wisdom"
- cline vs. race theory
- Egyptian social organization
- ethnology (Egyptian)
- Greek ethnocentrism
- Hellenic vs. Hellenistic
- Library of Alexandria
- Museum of Alexandria
- Orientalism
- pharaoh (as central focus of society)
- Ptolemy II
video: "Ancient Egypt, Modern Medicine"
- acacia needles and leaves
- biostat vs. antibiotic
- contraception
- Edward Said
- incubation of dreams
- "keeper (guardian) of the king's anus"
- Orientalism
- modernism
- Papyrus Edwin Smith
- Papyrus Ebers
- pregnancy testing
- prosthetics
- reductionism
- specializations
- trepanation
- 3 laws of analysis (Aristotle)
- analysis < analein (Gr.), "separate, break apart"
- archaeology
- Aristotle
- James H. Breasted
- Dendera
- dilemma of western rationalism
- Edwin Smith surgical papyrus
- Egyptian holistic medicine (integrative)
- gem wesh (Egy.), "found defective"
- Paul Ghalioungui
- historiography
- lacuna (gap or break in text)
- law of non contradiction
- law of identity
- law of excluded middle
- lines of research (in Egyptian medicine)
- medical papyri
- multiplicity of understandings
- mythopoeic thinking
- palaeopathology
- Parmenides
- partitive vs. additive thinking
- philology
- pre-rational thinking
- priest of Sakhmet (=priest-physician)
- rational thinking
- Robert K. Ritner
- scorpion charmer ("controller of Selket"=magician-physician)
- sunu (swnw), "physician"
- temple sanatoria
- tri-partite view of Egyptian medicine (obsolete)
- James H. Walker
- Amun
- deconstruction
- Jacques Derrida
- Egyptian integrative medicine
- empirico-rational medicine
- heka (Egy.), "creative power, magic"
- Heka
- hekau (Egy.), "magician"
- Heliopolis
- Hierakonpolis
- Horus
- logistics (basis of rational thinking)
- magic
- myth of Ra & Isis (re. Ra's secret name)
- mythopoeic (mythically-based non-rational)
- Neith
- Osiris
- Post-structuralism (historiography)
- Ra
- Ra-Atum
- religious medicine
- storiola
- 2 spheres of medicine:
- empirico-rational
- religious
- Apophis
- Apuleius
- avatar (physical manifestation)
- circumcision
- creation mythologies
- heka
- Horus
- Isis
- kheper neb, "all that exists"
- ma'at, "truth, right, order, justice, balance, harmony"
- Ma'at (daughter of Ra)
- meh-dish
- Metamorphoses of Apuleius (The Golden Ass)
- mind-body interface
- multiplicity of understandings
- mystery cults
- Nilotic (populations, cultures, etc.)
- Nun (nunu), "Primeval Waters of Chaos"
- order vs. chaos
- Osiris
- Osiris myth
- osteopathic medicine
- papyrus Hearst
- religious initiation
- rites of passage (=social initiation), African & Egyptian
- Seth
- social initiation
- tem kheper neb, "all that does not exist"
- vehicle (pharmacology)
Midterm Examination (10/6)
- aetiology
- akh, "effective spirit"
- bringers of disease:
- gods or goddesses
- male or female dead
- akhs (affecting specific limbs or body parts)
- other living persons (practicing heka)
- annual plague winds (sent by Sakhmet or her messengers)
- messengers of Sakhmet
- pathogenesis
- plague winds
- Sakhmet
- Washptah (vizier & architect)
Fall Break: No Class (10/18)
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