I have adapted one of my second-year papers into this episode on the Asu and Asipu. 

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Hogan, Larry. “Book Reviews: Illness and Health Care in the Ancient Near East: The Role of the Temple in Greece, Mesopotamia, and Israel,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 75:1 (2001) 120-121. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/4621/summary

Avalos, Hector. Illness and Health Care in the Ancient Near East: The Role of the Temple in Greece, Mesopotamia, and Israel. Atlanta, Georgia: Scholars Press, 1995.

Contenau, Georges. La Médecine en Assyrie et en Babylonie. Paris: Librairie Maloine, 1938.

Jaffar, Akram Abood. Mesopotamian Medicine: History of Medical and Health Sciences (2011) 1-31. http://www.slideshare.net/AkramJaffar/mesopotamian-medicine

Gibson, McGuire. “Gula, Goddess of Healing, and an Akkadian Tomb,” News & Notes The Oriental Institute 125 (1990): 4-5. https://oi.uchicago.edu/sites/oi.uchicago.edu/files/uploads/shared/docs/nn125.pdf

Teall, Emily K. “Medicine and Doctoring in Ancient Mesopotamia,” Grand Valley Journal of History 3:1 (2014): 2.

Paulissian, Robert. “Medicine in Ancient Assyria and Babylonia”, 10.

Biggs, Robert D. “Review: Illness and Health Care in the Ancient Near East: The Role of the Temple in Greece, Mesopotamia, and Israel by Hector Avalos,” Journal of the American Oriental Society 117:1 (1997): 170.

Biggs, Robert D. “Medicine, Surgery, and Public Health in Ancient Mesopotamia,” Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies 19:1 (2005): 4.

D., R. “Review: La Medecine en Assyrie et en Babylonie by Georges Contenau,” Syria 19:3 (1938): 290.

Rutten, M. “Dr Georges Contenau. La médicine en Assyrie et en Babylonie, (collection : La médicine à Travers le Temps et l’Espace. Directeur, Dr Stéphen Chauvet)” Journal des savants (1938): 180. http://www.persee.fr/doc/jds_0021-8103_1939_num_4_1_6255_t1_0180_0000_2

Gandz, Solomon. “Review: La médicine en Assyrie et en Babylonie by Georges Contenau,” Isis 31:1 (1939):100-101.

Retief, F. P. & L. Cilliers, “Mesopotamian Medicine,” History of Medicine 97:1 (2007): 27-28.

Koch, Ulla Susanne. “The Ashipu-Healer and Diviner?”, 1-7.  https://www.academia.edu/591778/The_Ashipu_-_Healer_and_Diviner

Mark, Joshua J. "Health Care in Ancient Mesopotamia" World History Encyclopedia. Health Care in Ancient Mesopotamia - World History Encyclopedia