Buch, Englisch, Band 12, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 240 mm
The Kitab al-Malaki and Related Texts
Buch, Englisch, Band 12, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 240 mm
Reihe: Medicine in the Medieval Mediterranean
ISBN: 978-3-11-133087-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Recent studies have underlined the importance of consulting different sources to trace global histories of diseases. However, due to a lack of critical editions of medical works, leprosy is poorly understood, and a wider interpretation of it as a historical phenomenon is yet to be proposed.
Building on a broad critical editing and analysis of Arabic and Latin texts, this book traces a new history of leprosy moving from late antiquity to the Islamic and Latin Middle Ages, thus proving the necessity of a comparative approach to grasp its Mediterranean scope. Challenging established historical reconstructions, this study demonstrates that Arabic texts were familiar with a scientific approach to contagiousness. It also shows how, when faced with the diffusion of leprosy as an endemic disease, Latin physicians tried to solve the enigma of its nature avoiding any moral censorship. Each chapter includes the relevant texts, all related to al-Magusi’s encyclopedia (10 c.), in critical edition with an English translation.
The book aims to contribute historians from different areas with a realistic picture of how theoretical, learned medicine considered leprosy, opening the possibility of broader research on other sources.
Zielgruppe
Medizinhistoriker/-innen, Historiker/-innen, Islamwissenschaftler / Historians, medicins, Islamic scholars
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
- Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin
- Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Leben & Praxis
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Geschichte: Seuchen, Krankheiten
- Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Epidemiologie, Medizinische Statistik
