Facets

2015

#9476

The medieval Islamic hospital: Medicine, religion, charity.

Focuses on Egyptian and Levantine institutions of the twelfth to fourteenth centuries.

2015

#10088

History of medical practice in Nigeria.

2015

#10800

The historical ecology of malaria in Ethiopia: Deposing the spirits.

2015

#12408

Beyond the state: The colonial medical service in British Africa.

2015

#12629

The paradigmatic translator and his method: Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq’s translation of the Hippocratic aphorisms from Greek via Syriac into Arabic. IN: New Horizons in Graeco-Arabica Studies, ed

This analysis of the work of the leading medieval Arab translator of Greek texts into Arabic emphasizes that Hunayn ibn Ishāq, a Nestorian Christian, typically prepared an intermediary translation into Syriac, from wh…

2016

#8233

Hunayn ibn Ishāq on his Galen translations: A parallel English-Arabic text edited and translated by John C. Lamoreaux, with an appendix by Grigory Kessel.

2016

#9401

Success and suppression: Arabic sciences and philosophy in the Renaissance.

A bibliographically oriented historical analysis of the numerous Renaissance translations of Arabic medical, scientific and philosophical works into Latin from the Arabic, which the author argues reached a peak in the…

2016

#9922

The David Livingstone Spectral Imaging Project, Published by Livingstone Online and the UCLA Digital Library Program.

http://livingstone.library.ucla.edu/index.htm "The David Livingstone Spectral Imaging Project is a collaborative, international effort to use spectral imaging technology and digital publishing to make available a seri…

2016

#10538

Ärztliches Leben und Denken im arabischen Mittelalter. Von Johann Christoph Bürgel. Bearbeitet von Fabian Käs.

"...Investigates conditions of life and professional ethics of the Arab physicians in the Middle Ages. Based on a multitude of biographical, protreptic, deontological, and isagogic texts, Bürgel analyzes diverse aspec…

2016

#10925

Discovery and description of Ebola Zaire virus in 1976 and relevance to the West African epidemic during 2013-2016.

A first hand account of events as they occurred in Yambuku in 1976, including the causes and reasons for the spread of Ebola within the Yambuku Mission hospital, the probable index event/patient (not identified), and …

2016

#11049

Arabian drugs in early medieval Mediterranean medicine.

2016

#11375

Protective monotherapy against lethal Ebola virus infection by a potently neutralizing antibody.

The cited paper was immediately followed in the same issue of Science by: John Misasi, Morgan A. Gilman, Masaru Kanekiyo et al, "Structural and molecular basis for Ebola virus neutralization by protective human antibo…

2017

#11139

Medieval Islamic medicine and medical luminaries.

2017

#12409

Medicine, mobility and the empire: Nyasaland networks, 1859-1960.

"David Livingstone's Zambesi expedition marked the beginning of an ongoing series of medical exchanges between the British and Malawians. This book explores these entangled histories by placing medicine in the framewo…

2017

#12571

A Syriac medical Kunnāšā of Īšōʿ bar ʿAlī (9th c.): First soundings

Abstract: "A little-known thirteenth-century manuscript preserved in Damascus contains by far the largest Syriac medical work that has survived till today. Despite the missing beginning, a preliminary study of the tex…

2017

#13529

Nahrungsmittel in der arabischen Medizin. Das Kitāb al-Aġḏiya wa-l-ašriba des Naǧīb ad-Dīn as-Samarqandī. Edition, Übersetzung und Kontext von Juliane Müller.

2018

#9711

Médecins et magiciens á la cour du pharaon. Une étude du papyrus médical Louvre E 32847.

Transcription, French translation, and study of this papyrus dating from the reign of Amenophis II (1424-1398 BCE). The papyrus, written for teaching purposes, concerns diagnosis of pathology in the elderly, tumors (i…

2018

#10776

Piety and patienthood in medieval Islam.

2018

#11831

Greek medical literature and its readers: From Hippocrates to Islam and Byzantium. Edited by Petros Bouras-Vallianatos and Sophia Xenophontos.

2018

#12567

Military medicine in Iraq and Afghanistan: A comprehensive review. Edited by Ian Greaves.

A report from the British Defence Medical Services.

2018

#12668

‘Ubaidallāh Ibn Buḫtīšū‘ on apparent death: The Kitāb Taḥrīm dafn al-aḥyā’, Arabic edition and English translation by Oliver Kahl.

2018

#14032

Studies in the history of medicine in Iran.

2019

#10777

Medicine and religion in the life of an Ottoman sheikh: Al-Damanhuri's "clear statement" on anatomy.

2019

#11056

A spotlight on the history of ancient Egyptian medicine.

A general survey with chapters that focus on the ancient Egyptian understanding and treatments of cardiovascular disease, as well as a description of herbal medicines used by ancient Egypt medical practitioners and ph…

2019

#12778

The Regimen Sanitatis of Avenzoar: Stages in the production of a medieval translation.

"The authors publish a previously unedited Regimen of Health attributed to Avenzoar (Ibn Zuhr), translated at Montpellier in 1299 in a collaboration between a Jewish philosopher and a Christian surgeon, the former tra…

2019

#12844

The African roots of marijuana.

"After arriving from South Asia approximately a thousand years ago, cannabis quickly spread throughout the African continent. European accounts of cannabis in Africa—often fictionalized and reliant upon racial stereot…

2019

#13015

Medicine at Monte Cassino: Constantine the African and the oldest manuscript of his Pantegni.

"Medicine at Monte Cassino offers unprecedented insights into the revolutionary arrival of Arabic medicine to medieval Europe by exploring the oldest manuscript of Constantine the African’s Pantegni, which is identifi…

2019

#13797

Eradicating smallpox in Ethiopia. Peace Corps Volunteers' Accounts of their Advantures, Challenges and Achievements. Edited by James W. Skelton, Gene L. Bartley, John Scott Porterfield, Alan Schnur.

2020

#12511

A literary history of medicine: The ʿUyūn al-anbāʾ fī ṭabaqāt al-aṭibbāʾ of Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah. Edited and translated, with essays, by Emilie Savage-Smith, Simon Swain, and Geert Jan van Gelder. With Ignacio Sánchez, N. Peter Joosse, Alasdair Watson, Bruce Inksetter, and Franak Hilloowala. 5 vols.

In addition to the printed version, Brill.com hosts an Open Access version of the text at scholarlyeditions.brill.com/ihom/.

2020

#12512

Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah, Anecdotes and antidotes: A medieval Arabic history of physicians. A new translation. Translated by Emilie Savage-Smith, Simon Swain et al. Selected and edited by Henrietta Sharp Cockrell, with introduction by Geert Jan van Gelder. [Oxford World’s Classics].

2020

#12596

A sensory appendage protein protects malaria vectors from pyrethroids.

Researching how the malarial mosquito A. gambiae developed resistance to common pyrethroid insecticides, the authors discovered how natural selection had enabled this insect population to develop resistance. They anal…

2020

#14031

The beginnings of modern medicine in Iran.

2021

#14030

History of hospitals in Iran, 550-1950.