Infectious ideas : contagion in premodern Islamic and Christian thought in the Western Mediterranean /

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Infectious Ideas is a comparative analysis of how Muslim and Christian scholars explained the transmission of disease in the premodern Mediterranean world. How did religious communities respond to and make sense of epidemic disease? To answer this, historian Justin K. Stearns looks at how Muslim and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stearns, Justin K., 1974-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©2011.
Temas:
To 1500
Medicine > Religious aspects > Christianity > History > To 1500.
Medicine > Religious aspects > Islam > History > To 1500.
Epidemiology > History > To 1500.
Medicine, Medieval > Western Mediterranean.
Diseases > Causes and theories of causation > History > To 1500.
Communicable diseases.
Cross-cultural studies.
Medicine in literature.
Cross-Cultural Comparison > Portugal.
Communicable Diseases > Portugal.
Medicine in Literature > Portugal.
Leprosy > history > Portugal.
Plague > history > Portugal.
Cross-Cultural Comparison > Africa, Northern.
Communicable Diseases > Africa, Northern.
Medicine in Literature > Africa, Northern.
Leprosy > history > Spain.
Plague > history > Spain.
Islam > history > Spain.
Christianity > history > Spain.
Communicable Diseases
Cross-Cultural Comparison
Leprosy > history
Plague > history
Medicine in Literature
Islam > history > Portugal.
Christianity > history > Portugal.
Leprosy > history > Africa, Northern.
Cross-Cultural Comparison > Spain.
Communicable Diseases > Spain.
Medicine in Literature > Spain.
Plague > history > Africa, Northern.
Islam > history > Africa, Northern.
Christianity > history > Africa, Northern.
Christianity > history
Islam > history
Médecine médiévale > Méditerranée occidentale.
Maladies infectieuses.
Études transculturelles.
Médecine dans la littérature.
Medicine in literature
Cross-cultural studies
Communicable diseases
Diseases > Causes and theories of causation
Epidemiology
Medicine, Medieval
Medicine > Religious aspects > Christianity
Medicine > Religious aspects > Islam
Africa, North.
Spain
Portugal
Africa, Northern
Afrique du Nord.
North Africa
Mediterranean Region > Western Mediterranean
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Contagion in the commentaries on prophetic tradition
  • Contagion as metaphor in Iberian Christian scholarship
  • Contagion contested : Greek medical knowledge, prophetic medicine, and the first plague treatises
  • Situating scholastic contagion between miasma and the evil eye
  • Contagion between Islamic law and theology
  • Contagion revisited : early modern Maghribi plague treatises
  • Reframing Muslim and Christian views on contagion.

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