Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 138 pages)
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illustrations
ISBN:
9781474473378
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1474473377
Serie:
Islamic surveys 11
Inhalt:
Ch. 1.Medical Conditions in Pre-Islamic Arabia and in the Umayyad Period.p. 1.
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Ch. 2.Age of the Translations.p. 7.
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Ch. 3.Survey of the History of Arabic Medicine.p. 41.
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Ch. 4.Physiology and Anatomy.p. 55.
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Ch. 5.Pathology.p. 72.
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Ch. 6.Transmissibility of Illnesses and the Plague.p. 86.
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Ch. 7.Dietetics and Pharmaceutics Dietetics.p. 97.
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Ch. 8.Medicine and the Occult.p. 107.
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Abbreviations.p. 115.
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Notes.p. 117.
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Index.p. 131.
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"In our own intellectual and scientific heritage Islamic medicine plays a much greater part than is usually realised. From about 1200 to 1600 the main textbooks for European medical students were those translated from the works of Muslim authors writing in Arabic. The present volume is not a history of Islamic medicine, but rather an attempt to show its distinctive character by concentrating on certain of its basic aspects." "The author shows how translations into Arabic of medical works, mainly from the Greek tradition, led to the renewal of this tradition in the Islamic world and then to its Islamisation. After a brief account of the development of Islamic medicine and its transmission to Europe, he goes on to explain some of its main concepts - its system of human physiology, its ideas about the nature of disease and how infection is transmitted, its rules for diet and the use of drugs. A final chapter explains the relation of 'rational medicine' to the occult and to astrology."--BOOK JACKET
Anmerkung:
"Reprinted in paperback"--Title page verso
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 117-130) and index
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0748609075
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Ullmann, Manfred Islamic medicine Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 1997, ©1978 ISBN 0748609075
Sprache:
Englisch
Mehr zum Autor:
Ullmann, Manfred 1931-
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