A Literary History of Medicine The ʿUyūn al-anbāʾ fī ṭabaqāt al-aṭibbāʾ of Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah. Volume 3-1: Annotated English Translation

A Literary History of Medicine by the Syrian physician Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah (d. 1270) is the earliest comprehensive history of medicine. It contains biographies of over 432 physicians, ranging from the ancient Greeks to the author's contemporaries, describing their training and practice, of...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Savage-Smith, Emilie, editor (editor)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill 2020.
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East ; 134/3-1.
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2024.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Volume 3-1 Annotated English Translation
  • Preface
  •   Bruce Inksetter
  • 1 The Origin and First Appearance of the Art of Medicine
  •   Bruce Inksetter, Simon Swain and Emilie Savage-Smith
  • 2 Physicians Who Perceived the Rudiments of the Art of Medicine and Initiated the Practice of That Art
  •   Bruce Inksetter and Simon Swain
  • 3 Greek Physicians Descended from Asclepius
  •   Bruce Inksetter, Simon Swain and Ignacio Sánchez
  • 4 Greek Physicians to Whom Hippocrates Transmitted the Art of Medicine
  •   Ignacio Sánchez and Simon Swain
  • 5 Physicians from or after the Time of Galen
  •   Simon Swain
  • 6 Alexandrian Physicians and Their Christian and Other Contemporaries
  •   Bruce Inksetter and Simon Swain
  • 7 Arab and Other Physicians of the Earliest Islamic Period
  •   Bruce Inksetter and Ignacio Sánchez
  • 8 Syriac Physicians of the Early Abbasid Period
  •   Bruce Inksetter, Emilie Savage-Smith and Geert Jan van Gelder (poetry)
  • 9 Physicians Who Translated Works on Medicine and Other Subjects from Greek into Arabic, and Their Patrons
  •   Bruce Inksetter and Ignacio Sánchez
  • 10 Iraqi Physicians and the Physicians of al-JazÄ«rah and Diyār Bakr
  •   Alasdair Watson and Geert Jan van Gelder (poetry).