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Author : Plinio Prioreschi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1888456043
Total Pages : 539 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (884 download)
Download or read book A History of Medicine: Byzantine and Islamic medicine written by Plinio Prioreschi and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Petros Bouras-Vallianatos
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192591088
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)
Download or read book Innovation in Byzantine Medicine written by Petros Bouras-Vallianatos and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-06 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Byzantine medicine remains a little known and misrepresented field not only in the context of debates on medieval medicine, but also among Byzantinists themselves. It is often viewed as 'stagnant' and mainly preserving ancient ideas, and our knowledge of it continues to be based to a great extent on the comments of earlier authorities, which are often repeated uncritically. This volume presents the first comprehensive examination of the medical corpus of, arguably, the most important Late Byzantine physician: John Zacharias Aktouarios (c.1275-c.1330). Its main thesis is that John's medical works show an astonishing degree of openness to knowledge from outside Byzantium combined with a significant degree of originality, in particular, in the fields of uroscopy and human physiology. The analysis of John's edited (On Urines and On Psychic Pneuma) and unedited (Medical Epitome) treatises is supported for the first time by the consultation of a large number of manuscripts, and is also informed by evidence from a wide range of medical sources, including those previously unpublished, and texts from other genres, such as epistolography and merchants' accounts. The contextualization of John's corpus sheds new light on the development of Byzantine medical thought and practice, and enhances our understanding of the Late Byzantine social and intellectual landscape. Through examination of his medical observations in the light of examples from the medieval Latin and Islamic worlds, his theories are also placed within the wider Mediterranean milieu, highlighting the cultural exchange between Byzantium and its neighbours.
Author : Peter E. Pormann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Medieval Islamic Medicine written by Peter E. Pormann and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An up-to-date survey of medieval Islamic medicine offering new insights to the role of medicine and physicians in medieval Islamic culture.
Author : Plinio Prioreschi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 778 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A History of Medicine written by Plinio Prioreschi and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arturo Castiglioni
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429670923
Total Pages : 1317 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)
Download or read book A History of Medicine written by Arturo Castiglioni and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 1317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1941, A History of Medicine provides a detailed and comprehensive guide to the advancement of medicine, from Ancient Egypt, and Ancient Babylonia, all the way up to the 20th century. The book looks at the close relationship between the progress of medicine and its advancement of civilization, it covers the development of medicine from, old magical rites, religious creeds, classical Hippocratism and revolutionary discoveries, while looking at the associated economic, intellectual, and political conditions of life in different nations, during different times. The book provides an essential and detailed look at the rich history of medicine and how it has impacted society.
Author : Gary B. Ferngren
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421412179
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Medicine and Religion written by Gary B. Ferngren and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2014-03-19 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the interplay of medicine and religion in Western societies. Medicine and Religion is the first book to comprehensively examine the relationship between medicine and religion in the Western tradition from ancient times to the modern era. Beginning with the earliest attempts to heal the body and account for the meaning of illness in the ancient Near East, historian Gary B. Ferngren describes how the polytheistic religions of ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome and the monotheistic faiths of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have complemented medicine in the ancient, medieval, and modern periods. Ferngren paints a broad and detailed portrait of how humans throughout the ages have drawn on specific values of diverse religious traditions in caring for the body. Religious perspectives have informed both the treatment of disease and the provision of health care. And, while tensions have sometimes existed, relations between medicine and religion have often been cooperative and mutually beneficial. Religious beliefs provided a framework for explaining disease and suffering that was larger than medicine alone could offer. These beliefs furnished a theological basis for a compassionate care of the sick that led to the creation of the hospital and a long tradition of charitable medicine. Praise for Medicine and Health Care in Early Christianity, by Gary B. Ferngren "This fine work looks forward as well as backward; it invites fuller reflection of the many senses in which medicine and religion intersect and merits wide readership."—JAMA "An important book, for students of Christian theology who understand health and healing to be topics of theological interest, and for health care practitioners who seek a historical perspective on the development of the ethos of their vocation."—Journal of Religion and Health
Author : Peregrine Horden
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 100094011X
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Hospitals and Healing from Antiquity to the Later Middle Ages written by Peregrine Horden and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first part of this collection brings together a selection of Peregrine Horden's papers on the history of hospitals and related institutions of welfare provision from their origins in Late Antiquity to their medieval flourishing in Byzantium and the Islamic lands as well as in western Europe. The hospital is seen in a variety of original contexts, from demography and family history to the history of music and the liturgy. The second part turns to the history of healing and medicine, outside the hospital as well as within it. These studies cover a period from Hippocratic times to the Renaissance, but with a particular focus on the Mediterranean region - Byzantine, Middle Eastern and Western - in the Middle Ages.
Author : Charles Greene Cumston
Publisher : London : K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & Company ; New York : A.A. Knopf
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book An Introduction to the History of Medicine written by Charles Greene Cumston and published by London : K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & Company ; New York : A.A. Knopf. This book was released on 1926 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard A. Gabriel
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1597978493
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (979 download)
Download or read book Man and Wound in the Ancient World written by Richard A. Gabriel and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2012 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the fascinating role of medicine in ancient military cultures; Shows how the ancients understood the body, patched up their warriors, and sent them back into battle; Reveals medical secrets lost during the Dark Ages; Explores how ancient civilizations' technologies have influenced modern medical practices
Author : Timothy S. Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Birth of the Hospital in the Byzantine Empire written by Timothy S. Miller and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medical historians have traditionally claimed that modern hospitals emerged during the latter half of the nineteenth century. Premodern hospitals, according to many scholars, existed mainly as refuges for the desperately poor and sick, providing patients with little or no medical care. Challenging this view in a compelling survey of hospitals in the East Roman Empire, Timothy Miller traces the birth and development of Byzantine xenones, or hospitals, from their emergence in the fourth century to their decline in the fifteenth century, just prior to the Turkish conquest of Constantinople. These sophisticated medical facilities, he concludes, are the true ancestors of modern hospitals. In a new introduction to this paperback edition, Miller describes the growing scholarship on this subject in recent years.
Author : Mark Jackson
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0199546495
Total Pages : 691 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine written by Mark Jackson and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2011-08-25 with total page 691 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In three sections, the Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine celebrates the richness and variety of medical history around the world. It explore medical developments and trends in writing history according to period, place, and theme.
Author : Muhammad Salim Khan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134564716
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)
Download or read book Islamic Medicine written by Muhammad Salim Khan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-16 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1986, this volume deals with the historical, philosophical and psychological concepts found in Islamic medical practices, and covers Islamic ideas on physiological, pathological, curative and preventative medicine. This was the first systematic study of Islamic medicine to be published in the English language and continues to have much relevance at a time when interest both in Islamic thought and in alternatives to conventional medicine is strong.
Author : Piers D. Mitchell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521844550
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (445 download)
Download or read book Medicine in the Crusades written by Piers D. Mitchell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-11-25 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a detailed description of medieval medical treatments available during the Crusades.
Author : David Bennett
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317010744
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Medicine and Pharmacy in Byzantine Hospitals written by David Bennett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-08-12 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars have made conflicting claims for Byzantine hospitals as medical institutions and as the forebears of the modern hospital. In this study is the first systematic examination of the evidence of the xenôn texts, or Xenonika, on which all such claims must in part rest. These texts, compiled broadly between the ninth and thirteenth centuries, are also transcribed or edited, with the exception of the combined texts of Romanos and Theophilos that, the study proposes, were originally a single manual and teaching work for doctors, probably based on xenôn practice. A schema of their combined chapter headings sets out the unified structure of this text. A short handlist briefly describes the principal manuscripts referred to throughout the study. The introduction briefly examines our evidence for the xenônes from the early centuries of the East Roman Empire to the fall of Constantinople in 1453. Chapter 3 examines the texts in xenon medical practice and compares them to some other medical manuals and remedy texts of the Late period and to their structures. The xenôn-ascribed texts are discussed one by one in chapters 4–8; the concluding chapter 9 draw together the common, as well as the divergent, aspects of each text and looks to the comparative evidence for hospital medical practice of the time in the West.
Author : Adil S. Gamal
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520350952
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Medieval Islamic Medicine written by Adil S. Gamal and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes medieval Islamic medicine and to explore a specific medical text, On the Prevention of Bodily Ills in Egypt by 'Ali ibn Ridwan (A.D. 998 - 1068). It seeks to answer the following questions: What did it mean to be a doctor in medieval Islamic society? What was the nature of the medicine that physicians practiced? And what was the relationship between physician and patient?
Author : Ahmad Yar Chaudhry
Publisher : Exhibit A
ISBN 13 : 9780956927569
Total Pages : 103 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (275 download)
Download or read book History of Islamic Medicine written by Ahmad Yar Chaudhry and published by Exhibit A. This book was released on 2013 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : F. González-Crussi
Publisher : Modern Library
ISBN 13 : 0812975537
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)
Download or read book A Short History of Medicine written by F. González-Crussi and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2008-11-11 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Insightful, informed, and at times controversial in its conclusions, A Short History of Medicine offers an exceptional introduction to the major and many minor facets of its subject. In this lively, learned, and wholly engrossing volume, F. González-Crussi presents a brief yet authoritative five-hundred-year history of the science, the philosophy, and the controversies of modern medicine. While this illuminating work mainly explores Western medicine over the past five centuries, González-Crussi also describes how modern medicine’s roots extend to both Greco-Roman antiquity and Eastern medical traditions. Covered here in engaging detail are the birth of anatomy and the practice of dissections; the transformation of surgery from a gruesome art to a sophisticated medical specialty; a short history of infectious diseases; the evolution of the diagnostic process; advances in obstetrics and anesthesia; and modern psychiatric therapies and the challenges facing organized medicine today. Written by a renowned author and educator, this book gives us the very essence of our search to mitigate suffering, save lives, and unlock the mysteries of the human animal. “[González-Crussi fuses] science, literature, and personal history into highly civilized artifacts.” –The Washington Post, on There Is a World Elsewhere
