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Leprosy in the Mediterranean Medical Literature : The Kitāb Al-Malakī and Related Texts.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gili, Anna.
- Series:
- Medicine in the Medieval Mediterranean Series
- Medicine in the Medieval Mediterranean Series ; v.12
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medicine, Arab.
- Manuscripts, Medieval.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (460 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2025.
- Summary:
- Recent studies have underlined the importance of consulting different sources to trace global histories of diseases.However, due to a lack of critical editions of medical works, leprosy is poorly understood, and a wider interpretation of it as a historical phenomenon is yet to be proposed.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI, based on the text of the resource.
- ISBN:
- 3-11-133151-2
- 9783111331515
- OCLC:
- 1561174803
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