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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Peter E. Pormann (University of Manchester)Publisher: Cambridge University Press Imprint: Cambridge University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.80cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.780kg ISBN: 9781107068209ISBN 10: 1107068207 Pages: 462 Publication Date: 08 November 2018 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of Contents1. Introduction Peter E. Pormann; 2. The 'Hippocratic question' and the nature of the Hippocratic Corpus Elizabeth Craik; 3. Textual history Jacques Jouanna; 4. Body Brooke Holmes; 5. Aetiology Jim Hankinson; 6. Epistemologies Lorenzo Perilli; 7. Ethics and deontology Karl-Heinz Leven; 8. Nosology Amneris Roselli; 9. Therapeutics Laurence Totelin; 10. Surgery Mathias Witt; 11. Female patients Lesley Dean-Jones; 12. Doctors and patients Chiara Thumiger; 13. Galen's Hippocrates Véronique Boudon-Millot; 14. Late antiquity Daniella Manetti; 15. Arabo-Islamic tradition Peter E. Pormann; 16. Western medicine since the Renaissance David Cantor.ReviewsAuthor InformationPeter E. Pormann is Professor of Classics and Graeco-Arabic Studies at the University of Manchester. His main research interests are the transmission of Greek medical and scientific knowledge into the Islamic tradition, as well as the engagement over the centuries of Jews, Christians and Muslims with the classical heritage. His recent publications include 'The Arabic Commentaries on the Hippocratic 'Aphorisms' in Oriens (with Kamran I. Karimullah), 'Medical Traditions' in Intellectual History of the Islamicate World (with Leigh Chipman, Miri Schefer-Mossensohn) and Philosophy and Medicine in the Formative Period of Islam (with Peter Adamson, 2018). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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