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Darrera modificació: 2018-09-10
Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Lev, Efraim - Amar, Zohar, Practical Materia Medica of the Medieval Eastern Mediterranean According to the Cairo Genizah, Leiden - Boston, Brill (Sir Henry Wellcome Asian Series, 7), 2008, x + 619 pp. + [32] làm.
- Resum
- This volume uniquely looks into the practice of medical care in the medieval world, particularly amongst the Jewish communities of Egypt. It examines the medicinal prescriptions, lists of materia medica and letters between physicians, pharmacists and patients found in the Cairo Genizah. Most histories of medieval medicine of the eastern Mediterranean are based upon theoretical Arabic writings. Here the authors examine, analyze and contextualize these medieval prescriptions also from the perspective of ethnobotanists, and as a result, provide an innovative insight into the everyday practice of medieval medicine and the historical use of the medicinal substances in the Medieval Mediterranean world. The result is a much needed contribution to medical-historical scholarship interested in the everyday practice of medicine of the common people of the medieval period. With extended studies of the most prominent substances used.
Contents:
* Introduction
* Practical materia medica and its sources
* The identification of materia medica in the Genizah and method of presenting the data
* Prescriptions, lists, letters and their analysis
* Inventory of practical materia medica of the Genizah people, its analysis, and comparisons with the theoretical inventory
* Materia medica: detailed items
* Materia medica: concise items
* Epilogue
- Matèries
- Medicina - Farmacologia
Hebraisme
Arabisme
- Notes
- Informació de l'editor
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The authors have several articles in the Journal of Ethnopharmacology which should be a useful source in general on Arabic materia medica.
Recensions:
* Bos (2008), "Research into the Cairo Genizah ..."
- URL
- https://books.google.es/books?id=c62M1aMl6QUC&lpg=P ...
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