Beschreibung
The medical section of the by the medieval author cAbd al-Laţīf ibn Yūsuf al-Baghdādī (1162-1231) challenges the idea that Arabic-Islamic medicine declined after the twelfth century A.D. Moreover, it offers some interesting insights into the social history of medicine.
Autorenportrait
N. Peter Joosse was a fellow-in-residence at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences, and a senior research fellow at the universities of Frankfurt am Main and Leiden. In 2010, he joined the Department of Classics & Ancient History of the University of Warwick as a Wellcome Trust research fellow to work on cAbd al-Laţīf ibn Yūsuf al-Baghdādī Arabic commentary on the Hippocratic Prognostic. In 2013 he joined the University of Oxford based project on Ibn abī Uṣaybica.
Inhalt
Contents: Medieval Islam – Social history – Medical epistemology – Women – Quacks and charlatans – Medical education – cAbd al-Laţīf ibn Yūsuf al-Baghdādī (1162-1231) – Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna, † 1037).
