Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Physician as a Rebellious IntellectualCondition: NewEAN: 9783631642856ISBN: 9783631642856Publisher: Peter Lang AGFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 03/27/2014Item Height: 230mmItem Length: 155mmItem Weight: 310gAuthor: N. Peter JoosseLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: The Book of the Two Pieces of Advice or "Kitāb al-Naṣīḥatayn" by c Abd al-Laţīf ibn Yūsuf al-Baghdādī (1162-1231) - Introduction, Edition and Translation of the Medical SectionDescription: The medical section of the Kitāb al-Naṣīḥatayn or Book of the Two Pieces of Advice 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. cAbd al-Laţīf composed his work as a diatribe directed against false knowledge, and employed the framework of Greek medical epistemology to criticize the rationalist physicians of his day and age. He argued that female and itinerant practitioners, relying on experience, were superior to some rationalists, and decried the wickedness and incompetence of certain medical practitioners of his time. In addition, he lambasted contemporaneous medical education because it put too much faith in a restricted number of textbooks such as the Canon of Medicine by the celebrated physician Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna), or chiefly relied on imperfect abridgments. The medical section of the Book of the Two Pieces of Advice is translated here for the first time in a modern language. It is preceded by a lengthy introduction that highlights cAbd al-Laţīfs complicated relation to both medicine and alchemy. The present study also contains the first full bibliography on cAbd al-Laţīf ibn Yūsuf al-Baghdādī and his milieu.Country/Region of Manufacture: CHBook Series: Beihefte zur MediaevistikGenre: Literary CriticismTopic: History, MedicineRelease Year: 2014 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: The Physician as a Rebellious Intellectual
Title: The Physician as a Rebellious Intellectual
EAN: 9783631642856
ISBN: 9783631642856
Release Date: 03/27/2014
Release Year: 2014
Item Height: 230mm
Subtitle: The Book of the Two Pieces of Advice or "Kitāb al-Naṣīḥatayn" by
Country/Region of Manufacture: CH
Genre: Literary Criticism
Topic: Medicine
Number of Pages: 214 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Physician As a Rebellious Intellectual : The Book of the Two Pieces of Advice or Kitāb Al-Naṣīḥatayn by C Abd Al-Laţīf Ibn yūsuf Al-Baghdādī (1162-1231) - Introduction, Edition and Translation of the Medical Section
Publisher: Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften, Peter
Publication Year: 2014
Subject: Miscellaneous, Alternative & Complementary Medicine, Middle Eastern, General, Middle East / General
Features: New Edition
Type: Language Course
Item Weight: 10.9 Oz
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Foreign Language Study, History, Medical
Item Length: 9.1 in
Author: N. Peter Joosse
Series: Beihefte Zur Mediaevistik Ser.: Monographien, Editionen, Sammelbaende
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
