Epidemics in context : Greek commentaries on Hippocrates in the Arabic tradition /

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The Hippocratic Epidemics and Galen's Commentary on them constitute milestones in the development of clinical medicine. However, they also illustrate the rich exegetical traditions that existed in the post-classical Greek world. The present volume investigates these texts from various and diver...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Pormann, Peter E. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Arabic
Griego Antiguo
Publicado: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2012]
Colección:Scientia Graeco-Arabica ; v. 8.
Temas:
Hippocrates. > Epidemics.
Epidemics (Hippocrates)
Medicine, Greek and Roman.
Medicine, Arab.
Epidemics.
Pandemics.
Disease Outbreaks
History, Ancient
Greek World
Medicine, Arabic
Epidemics
Pandemics
Médecine grecque et romaine.
Médecine arabe.
Pandémies.
Épidémies.
epidemics.
pandemics.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General.
MEDICAL > Clinical Medicine.
MEDICAL > Diseases.
MEDICAL > Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL > Internal Medicine.
Medicine, Arab
Medicine, Greek and Roman
Galen.
Hippocrates.
Medical History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction
  • A New Manuscript: Istanbul, Süleymaniye Kütüphanesi, MS Ayasofya 3592
  • Greek Epidemics
  • Exegesis, Explanation and Epistemology in Galen's Commentaries on Epidemics, Books One and Two
  • Sympathy between Hippocrates and Galen: The Case of Galen's Commentary on Hippocrates' 'Epidemics', Book Two
  • The Arabic Version of Galen's Commentary on Hippocrates' 'Epidemics', Book Two, as a source for the Hippocratic Text: First Remarks
  • Syriac and Arabic Epidemics
  • The Syriac Epidemics and the Problem of Its Identification
  • Galen, Epidemics, Book One: Text, Transmission, Translation
  • The Art of the Translator, or: How did Ḥunayn ibn ʼIsḥāq and his School Translate?
  • Galen the Pagan and Ḥunayn the Christian: Specific Transformations in the Commentaries on Airs, Waters, Places and the Epidemics
  • The later Arabic medical tradition and the Epidemics
  • The Arabic Reception of Galen's Commentary on Hippocrates' 'Epidemics'
  • Commentaries on the Hippocratic Aphorisms in the Arabic Tradition: The Example of Melancholy
  • ʻAbd al-Laṭīf al-Baġdādī's Commentary on Hippocrates' 'Prognostic': A Preliminary Exploration
  • Recipes by Hippocrates, Galen and Ḥunayn in the Epidemics and in Medieval Arabic Pharmacopoeias
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • List of Contributors.

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