Islamic Medicine
Series: Islamic surveys ; 11
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Language: eng
Translated from: ger
Translation of: Die Medizin Im Islam
Format: eBook
Number of pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9781474473378
Description: This highly readable survey describes the development of Islamic medicine and its influence on Western medical thought. It explains the main features of Islamic medicine: its system of human physiology; its ideas about the nature of disease; its rules for diet and the use of drugs; and its relationship with astrology and the occult.
Table of contents: label: 1
title: Medical Conditions in Pre-Islamic Arabia and in the Umayyad Period
pagenum: 1; label: 2
title: Age of the Translations
pagenum: 7; label: 3
title: Survey of the History of Arabic Medicine
pagenum: 41; label: 4
title: Physiology and Anatomy
pagenum: 55; label: 5
title: Pathology
pagenum: 72; label: 6
title: Transmissibility of Illnesses and the Plague
pagenum: 86; label: 7
title: Dietetics and Pharmaceutics Dietetics
pagenum: 97; label: 8
title: Medicine and the Occult
pagenum: 107; title: Abbreviations.
pagenum: 115; title: Notes
pagenum: 117; title: Index
pagenum: 131