Open Access Book: A Literary History of Medicine - The ʿUyūn al-anbāʾ fī ṭabaqāt al-aṭibbāʾ of Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah

A Literary History of Medicine - The ʿUyūn al-anbāʾ fī ṭabaqāt al-aṭibbāʾ of Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah

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"A Literary History of Medicine is the earliest comprehensive history of medicine. It contains biographies of over 432 physicians, ranging from the ancient Greeks to the author’s contemporaries, describing their training and practice, often as court physicians, and listing their medical works; all this interlaced with poems and anecdotes.

Generously funded by the Wellcome Trust, this is an open access title distributed under the terms of the
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Print edition: 
Title: A literary history of medicine : the 'Uyūn al-anbā' fī ṭabaqāt al-aṭibbā' of Ibn Abī Uṣaybi'ah
Author: Emilie Savage-Smith; Simon Swain; G J H van Gelder; Ignacio Javier [VNV] Sánchez Rojo
Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020]
Series: Handbook of Oriental studies. Section one, the Near and Middle East, volume 134,1-3-2
5 volumes
ISBN: 9789004410312