This book describes medieval Islamic medicine and to explore a specific medical text, On the Prevention of Bodily Ills in Egypt by 'Ali ibn Ridwan (A.D. 998 - 1068). It seeks to answer the following questions: What did it mean to be a doctor in medieval Islamic society? What was the nature of the medicine that physicians practiced? And what was the relationship between physician and patient?
Michael W. Dols was Assistant Professor of History at California State University, Hayward.
268 pp.6 x 9
9780520048362$63.00|£53.00Hardcover
Apr 1984