Islamic medicine / Manfred Ullmann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ullmann, Manfred, author.

Series:

Islamic surveys ; 11.

Islamic surveys ; 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine, Arab.

Medicine--Religious aspects--Islam.

Medicine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (161 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2008.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

FOREWORD

THE CONTENTS

List of Illustrations

Introduction

Chapter One Medical Conditions in Pre-Islamic Arabia and in the Umayyad Period

Chapter Two The Age of the Translations

Chapter Three Survey of the History of Arabic Medicine

Chapter Four Physiology and Anatomy

Chapter Five Pathology

Chapter Six The Transmissibility of Illnesses and the Plague

Chapter Seven Dietetics and Pharmaceutics

Chapter Eight Medicine and the Occult

Abbreviations

Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4744-7337-7