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Ulrike Steinert, “Cracking Bones, Gnawing Flesh, and Pondering Hearts: Body, Mind, and Medicine in Ancient Mesopotamia” (2017) — Video & transcript of her lecture at Harvard’s Peabody Museum.

Barbara Böck, “Investigating the Healing Arts of Ancient Mesopotamia”

Saba Mahmood, “Feminist Theory, Embodiment, and the Docile Agent: Some Reflections on the Egyptian Islamic Revival,” Cultural Anthropology 16 (2001): 220-35.

"There is no reference to a pure body which is not at the same time a further formation of that body.” Judith Butler, Bodies That Matter, 10.

Arbøll’s recent study of the texts of exorcist Kiṣir-Aššur. This is a very important work of local medical history, and it might shed light on the rise of the exorcist in Neo-Assyrian royal power centers as well as on whether exorcist, Esagil-kīn-apli’s famous Diagnostic Handbook represents a break with the medical establishment in Aššur. (See Nils P. Heeßel, 154ff).