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Epidemics in Context : Greek Commentaries on Hippocrates in the Arabic Tradition / ed. by Peter E. Pormann.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Scientia Graeco-Arabica ; 8Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (334 p.)Content type:
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  • 9783110259797
  • 9783110259803
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 616 23
LOC classification:
  • R126.H6 E6 2012
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
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 ʾIsḥāq 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
Summary: The Hippocratic Epidemics and Galen’s Commentary on them constitute milestones in the development of clinical medicine. But they also illustrate the rich exegetical traditions that existed in the post-classical Greek world. The present volume investigates these texts from various and diverse vantage points: textual criticism; Greek philology; knowledge transfer through translations; and medical history. Especially the Syriac and Arabic traditions of the Epidemics come under scrutiny.
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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 ʾIsḥāq 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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The Hippocratic Epidemics and Galen’s Commentary on them constitute milestones in the development of clinical medicine. But they also illustrate the rich exegetical traditions that existed in the post-classical Greek world. The present volume investigates these texts from various and diverse vantage points: textual criticism; Greek philology; knowledge transfer through translations; and medical history. Especially the Syriac and Arabic traditions of the Epidemics come under scrutiny.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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