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Darrera modificació: 2010-07-22
Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Álvarez Millán, Cristina, "The case history in medieval Islamic medical literature: tajārib and mujarrabāt as source", Medical History, 54/2 (2010), 195-214.
- Resum
- The present study analyses the variying categories of clinical accounts to be found in medieval Islamic medical literature in order to address the question of whether case histories—like learned treatises—can be blindly treated as guides to medieval Islamic medical practice. This paper is divided into three parts. The first section focuses on collections of case histories and clinical experiences as a literary genre, until recently erroneously associated with magical and superstitious practices. In the second part, clinical accounts taken from different medieval Islamic authors will be analyzed in their literary or social contexts to show different agendas on the authors’ part and, therefore, that not all case histories are a reliable source for the study of actual medical practice in Medieval Islam. In the third section, following the categories examined in this paper, Ibn Sina’s (Avicenna) clinical reports will be evaluated to discuss whether the widely accepted consideration of his excellence as a practising physician is based on historical evidence or biased by deeply rooted historical assumptions.
- Matèries
- Història de la medicina
Arabisme
Àrab
- URL
- http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2844281/
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