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Product details:
- Edition number Abridged Edition
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 25 June 2020
- ISBN 9780198827924
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages400 pages
- Size 196x128x18 mm
- Weight 278 g
- Language English 23
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Short description:
Ibn Abi Usaybi'ah was a Syrian Arab physician of the 13th century who compiled a biographical encyclopedia of notable physicians, and scholars from the Greeks, Romans, Syriacs and Indians including Galen and Avicenna.
MoreLong description:
To my knowledge...no one...has ever written a comprehensive book dealing with physicians through the ages and recounting their history in a coherent fashion.
So wrote Syrian physician Ibn Abi Usaybi'ah, circa 1243, as he embarked on the first world history of medicine ever attempted. Many physicians served at the royal courts of their time and were firmly part of the intellectual and cultural scene, where the ability to write stylishly and entertain one's peers in both prose and verse was the basis of social credibility. The work Ibn Abi Usaybi'ah created contains over 432 biographical accounts of physicians from those of ancient Greece, such as Galen, through Avicenna and Maimonides, to the author's own colleagues of the 13th century. As such, his work includes important accounts of medical activity in medieval hospitals. Through this book, a window opens not only on to the origins of the medical profession, but also into the truly multi-cultural, multi-religious world of the medieval Middle East.
Anecdotes and Antidotes is an abridged version of this world history of medicine. It comprises 103 biographies of physicians and philosophers, organized geographically and chronologically, from the 4th century BC to the 13th century, and includes seminal Muslim, Christian and Jewish figures. It contains vital medical and historical information, as well as revealing the cultural values, interests and concerns of the literary and intellectual elite of the time.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Note on Transliteration and Pronunciation
Editorial Note
Select Bibliography
Chronology
Map
Anecdotes and Antidotes. A Medieval Arabic History of Physicians. A New Translation.
Explanatory Notes
Appendix 1: Weights & Measures
Appendix 2: Gazetteer of Place-Names
Appendix 3: Concordance of biographies with those in the full text
Appendix 4: List of Sources used by Ibn Abi Usaybi'ah
List of Illustrations and Diagrams
