Epidemics in context : Greek commentaries on Hippocrates in the Arabic tradition

Epidemics in context : Greek commentaries on Hippocrates in the Arabic tradition / edited by Peter E. Pormann.

The Hippocratic Epidemics and Galen's Commentary on them constitute milestones in the development of clinical medicine. However, they also illustrate the rich exegetical traditions that existed in the post-classical Greek world. The present volume investigates these texts from various and diver...

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Other Authors: Pormann, Peter E. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Arabic
Ancient Greek
Published: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2012]
Series:Scientia Graeco-Arabica ; v. 8.
Subjects:
Hippocrates. > Epidemics.
Epidemics (Hippocrates)
Medicine, Greek and Roman.
Medicine, Arab.
Epidemics.
Pandemics.
Medicine, Ancient.
epidemics.
pandemics.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General.
MEDICAL > Clinical Medicine.
MEDICAL > Diseases.
MEDICAL > Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL > Internal Medicine.
Epidemics
Medicine, Arab
Medicine, Greek and Roman
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction
  • A New Manuscript: Istanbul, Süleymaniye Kütüphanesi, MS Ayasofya 3592
  • Greek Epidemics
  • Exegesis, Explanation and Epistemology in Galen's Commentaries on Epidemics, Books One and Two
  • Sympathy between Hippocrates and Galen: The Case of Galen's Commentary on Hippocrates' 'Epidemics', Book Two
  • The Arabic Version of Galen's Commentary on Hippocrates' 'Epidemics', Book Two, as a source for the Hippocratic Text: First Remarks
  • Syriac and Arabic Epidemics
  • The Syriac Epidemics and the Problem of Its Identification
  • Galen, Epidemics, Book One: Text, Transmission, Translation
  • The Art of the Translator, or: How did Ḥunayn ibn ʼIsḥāq and his School Translate?
  • Galen the Pagan and Ḥunayn the Christian: Specific Transformations in the Commentaries on Airs, Waters, Places and the Epidemics
  • The later Arabic medical tradition and the Epidemics
  • The Arabic Reception of Galen's Commentary on Hippocrates' 'Epidemics'
  • Commentaries on the Hippocratic Aphorisms in the Arabic Tradition: The Example of Melancholy
  • ʿAbd al-Laṭīf al-Baġdādī's Commentary on Hippocrates' 'Prognostic': A Preliminary Exploration
  • Recipes by Hippocrates, Galen and Ḥunayn in the Epidemics and in Medieval Arabic Pharmacopoeias
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • List of Contributors.

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