Hammurabi’s code is a useful tool for anthropologists studying Babylonian society and culture. Social classes can be learned just from reading Hammurabi’s code. Law 215-217 shows the importance of one person over another. The law states an if a physician makes an operation of the eye and fixes the eye of a patrician (rich person) he shall receive ten shekels in money. If the patient is a freed man, he receives five shekels. If the patients a slave, his owner shall give the physician two shekels. According to society in Babylonian time, caring for a patrician would be more of a reward then for another class. As evidence seen from the price each class gives, the patrician must pay more for care versus the lower classes. Obviously, the doctor
