Medical Prescriptions in the Cambridge Genizah Collections: Practical Medicine and Pharmacology in Medieval Egypt. Cambridge Genizah Studies Series, Volume 4

Author:   Efraim Lev ,  Leigh Chipman
Publisher:   Brill
Volume:   55
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9789004234888


Pages:   188
Publication Date:   14 September 2012
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Author:   Efraim Lev ,  Leigh Chipman
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   55
Weight:   0.787kg
ISBN:  

9789004234888


ISBN 10:   9004234888
Pages:   188
Publication Date:   14 September 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1 - The Theoretical Background of the Genizah Prescriptions Chapter 2 -The Practical Medicine of the Cairo Genizah Chapter 3 - Thirty selected prescriptions Chapter 4 - The Findings and their Significance Epilogue Bibliography Glossary Index

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Efraim Lev, Ph.D. (1999), Bar-Ilan, is a historian of medicine, an ethno-pharmacologist, and professor at the Department of Eretz Israel Studies at Haifa University, Israel. He has published monographs and many articles on the history of medicine in Israel and the Middle East. Leigh Chipman, Ph.D. (2006), Hebrew University of Jerusalem, works on the social and intellectual history of medicine and science in the medieval Islamicate world. She is author of The World of Pharmacy and Pharmacists in Mamluk Cairo (Brill, 2010) and several articles.

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