Acknowledgements
This volume grew out of a selection of papers presented at the symposium on Body and Metaphor in Ancient Medicine (1–3 May 2014) at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. We are immensely grateful to Christopher Woods for providing the impetus for planning this symposium and his unwavering support throughout the process. We would also like to thank Martha Roth and Margot Browning for their valuable advice in planning the budget and applying for grants. The symposium owed much of its smooth organization to its host, the Oriental Institute, for which we thank Gil Stein, Steven Camp, and D’Ann Yoder Condes; as well as Jack Green for his guided tour of the Museum, and staff members including Mariana Perlinac, Brittany Mullins, and Leslie Schramer for their help with logistics and publicity. We are, moreover, indebted to Judith B. Farquhar, Donald Harper, Jennifer Kosak, Vivienne Lo, and Robert K. Ritner for their lively contributions to discussion during the symposium, but whose papers do not appear in this volume; as well as to Elizabeth Asmis, Robert Biggs, Janet H. Johnson, Robert Richards, Michael Rossi, and Theo van den Hout for their insightful perspectives and commentary as the chairs of various sessions. Special thanks goes to Philip van der Eijk, series editor of Studies in Ancient Medicine (Brill), and the anonymous reviewers of the individual chapters for their careful and detailed suggestions that helped us improve the quality of this volume, as well as to Jennifer Pavelko, Tessel Jonquière, Giulia Moriconi, and Gera van Bedaf at Brill for their advice and assistance. Last but not least, we express our gratitude for the financial sponsorship and enthusiastic support of the symposium and this edited volume by the following at the University of Chicago:
The Oriental Institute
The Franke Institute for the Humanities
The Center for the Study of Ancient Religions
The Visiting Committee to the Division of the Humanities
Morris Fishbein Center for the History of Science and Medicine &
The Committee on the Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science
The Department of Classics
The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Robert Biggs and Clay Anderson