Full Description
A Literary History of Medicine by the Syrian physician Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah (d. 1270) is the earliest comprehensive history of medicine. It contains biographies of over 432 physicians, ranging from the ancient Greeks to the author's contemporaries, describing their training and practice, often as court physicians, and listing their medical works; all this interlaced with poems and anecdotes. These volumes present the first complete and annotated translation along with a new edition of the Arabic text showing the stages in which the author composed the work. Introductory essays provide important background. The reader will find on these pages an Islamic society that worked closely with Christians and Jews, deeply committed to advancing knowledge and applying it to health and wellbeing.
Contents
Volume 3-1 Annotated English Translation
Preface
Bruce Inksetter
1 The Origin and First Appearance of the Art of Medicine
Bruce Inksetter, Simon Swain and Emilie Savage-Smith
2 Physicians Who Perceived the Rudiments of the Art of Medicine and Initiated the Practice of That Art
Bruce Inksetter and Simon Swain
3 Greek Physicians Descended from Asclepius
Bruce Inksetter, Simon Swain and Ignacio Sánchez
4 Greek Physicians to Whom Hippocrates Transmitted the Art of Medicine
Ignacio Sánchez and Simon Swain
5 Physicians from or after the Time of Galen
Simon Swain
6 Alexandrian Physicians and Their Christian and Other Contemporaries
Bruce Inksetter and Simon Swain
7 Arab and Other Physicians of the Earliest Islamic Period
Bruce Inksetter and Ignacio Sánchez
8 Syriac Physicians of the Early Abbasid Period
Bruce Inksetter, Emilie Savage-Smith and Geert Jan van Gelder (poetry)
9 Physicians Who Translated Works on Medicine and Other Subjects from Greek into Arabic, and Their Patrons
Bruce Inksetter and Ignacio Sánchez
10 Iraqi Physicians and the Physicians of al-Jazīrah and Diyār Bakr
Alasdair Watson and Geert Jan van Gelder (poetry)
