Facets

1998

#8283

La chirurgie dans l'Égypte gréco-romaine d'après les papyrus littéraire grecs.

1998

#8571

Medicine of the Prophet. Translated by Penelope Johnstone.

" . . . a combination of religious and medical information, providing advice and guidance on the two aims of medicine - the preservation and restoration of health - in careful conformity with the teachings of Islam as…

1998

#12510

Greek thought, Arabic culture: The Graeco-Arabic translation movement in Baghadad and early Abbāsid Society (2nd-4th/8th centuries).

1998

#12527

Economic botany and ethnobotany in Al-Andalus (Iberian Peninsula: Tenth-Fifteenth Centuries), an unknown heritage of mankind.

1999

#7083

Handbuch der altägyptischen Medizin. 2 vols.

1999

#10031

Histories of sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa. Edited by Philip W, Setel, Milton J. Lewis, and Maryinez Lyons.

1999

#12516

The diffusion of Greco-Roman medicine into the Middle East and the Caucasus. Edited by J.A.C. Greppin, E. Savage-Smith, and J. L. Gueriguian.

2000

#8030

African traditional medicine: A dictionary of plant use and applications with supplement: Search system for diseases.

2000

#8504

Indigenous theories of contagious disease.

2000

#10000

Die Heilkunde in alten Aegypten (Sudhoffs Archiv Beiheft 42).

Covers both magic and empirical treatment, with a particular focus on the treatment of diseases studied on the basis of texts, including the preparation of medicines.

2000

#10033

A Plague of paradoxes: Aids, culture, and demography in Northern Tanzania.

2001

#7275

'Millennium Ancestor', a 6-million-year-old bipedal hominid from Kenya - Recent discoveries push back human origins by 1.5 million years.

Living around 6 million years ago, in the Tugen hills region of central Kenya, this species, named Orrorin tugenensis, had small teeth with thick enamel similar to modern humans. It climbed trees, but also probably wa…

2001

#7279

New hominin genus from eastern Africa shows diverse middle Pliocene lineages.

In 1998 and 1999, working in the Lake Turkana region of northern Kenya, Meave Leakey and her team found a cranium and other fossil remains of a 3.5 million year old hominin with a mixture of features unseen in other e…

2001

#10091

Black death, white medicine: Bubonic plague and the politics of public health in colonial Senegal, 1914-1945.

2001

#10695

Death on the Nile. Disease and the Demography of Roman Egypt.

2002

#7274

A new hominid from the Upper Miocene of Chad, central Africa.

The first paper on Sahelanthropus tchadensis, dating from between 7 and 6 million years ago in West Central Africa (northern Chad). This species had a combination of ape-like and human-like features. Ape-like elements…

2003

#8289

Sabur Ibn Sahl: The Small Dispensatory: Translated from the Arabic together with a study and glossaries by Oliver Kahl.

Edition and translation of the oldest manuscript on Arabic pharmacy.

2003

#8506

Materia magica et medica Hethitica: Ein Beitrag zur Heilkunde im Alten Orient. By Volkert Haas in cooperation with Daliah Bawanypeck.

The first comprehensive compendium of all known remedies and treatments used by the Hittites. The source texts are ritual descriptions and formularies from the 15th to 13th centuries BCE preserved from the archives of…

2003

#9746

Medicine across cultures: History and practice of medicine in non-Western cultures. Edited by Helaine Selin.

A very wide-ranging selection of essays

2003

#11047

Medicinal substances in Jerusalem from early times to the present day. (BAR International Series 1112).

2004

#7042

Medicine, public health and the Qājār state. Patterns of medical modernization in nineteenth-century Iran.

2004

#7944

Making Kedjom medicine: A history of public health and well-being in Cameroon.

2004

#8312

Magic and rationality in ancient Near Eastern and Graeco-Roman medicine. Edited by Manfred Horstmanshoff and Marten Stol.

The first comparison of medical systems of the Ancient Near East and the Greek and Roman world. The authors treat early medicine in Babylonia, Egypt, the Minoan and Mycenean world; later medicine in Hippocrates, Galen…

2004

#8321

Eros on the Nile. Translated from the Polish by Geoffrey L. Packer.

Originally published by Eros nad Nilem (Prószyyńki i S-ka S.A, 1998).

2004

#8351

Questions and answers for physicians: A medieval Arabic study manual by 'Abd al- 'Azīz al-Sulamī. Translated, edited and with an introduction by Gary Leiser and Noury Al-Khaledy.

"....a translation and edition of the medieval Arabic medical work entitled Imtiḥān al-alibbā' li-kāffat al-aṭibbā' ("The Experts' Examination for All Physicians"). It is a study guide for students of medicine prepare…

2004

#12524

The oriental tradition of Paul of Aegina's Pragmateia.

"The volume investigates how Paul of Aegina's medical handbook or pragmateia was transmitted and transformed through Syriac and Arabic translations, becoming one of the cornerstones of the Islamic medical tradition. I…

2004

#13536

The history of medicine in Iran. Entries extracted from the Encyclopaedia Iranica Vols. I-XII.

2004

#14033

Public health in Qajar Iran.

"Until Now, there have been no books and only a few articles available in English that deal with the actual practice of medicine in nineteenth and early twentieth-century Iran. Willem Floor’s Public Health in Qajar Ir…

2005

#12113

Emergence of unique primate T-lymphotropic viruses among central African bushmeat hunters.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Wolfe, Heniene, Carr ...Birx.... "As of 2016, 301 terrestrial mammals were threatened with extinction due to hunting for bushmeat including primates, even-toed ungulate…

2005

#13126

Arabic medical manuscripts of the Wellcome Library: A descriptive catalogue of the Haddād collection.

2006

#7923

Histoire de la médecine et des maladies en Afrique. Edited by Jean-Paul Bado.

2006

#7924

Les conquêtes de la médecine moderne en Afrique. Edited by Jean-Paul Bado.

2006

#8285

Médecins et malades de l'Egypte romaine: Étude socio-légale de la profession médicale et de ses praticiens du Ier au IVe siècle ap. J.-C.

2006

#8585

Daily life in the Mongol empire.

Chapter 6: Health and Medicine.

2006

#9376

Producing sexual desire: Changing sexual discourse in the Ottoman Middle East, 1500-1900.

2006

#11041

Chimpanzee reservoirs of pandemic and nonpandemic HIV-1.

Order of authorship in the original paper: Keele, Van Heuverswyn, Li, Hahn. Definitive proof that SIVcpz circulated and existed in wild chimps in a given area of Africa, and that a mutation of this specific SIV in Afr…

2006

#12523

The medicinal use of opium in ninth-century Baghdad. (Sir Henry Wellcome Asian Series, vol. 5).

2007

#7391

Avicenna Latinus: The reception and assimilation of Ibn Sīnā in the West: texts and studies.

2007

#8278

The dispensatory of Ibn at-Tilmīd: Arabic text, English translation, study and glossaries by Oliver Kahl.

Critical Arabic edition, annotated English translation, introductory study, and two-way glossaries of the dispensatory composed around the middle of the 12th century CE by the Nestorian physician Ibn at-Tilmīḏ. The di…

2007

#8413

Practising colonial medicine: The Colonial Medical Service in British East Africa.

The Colonial Medical Service was the branch of the Colonial Serice responsible for healthcare provision in the British overseas territories. This book profiles Colonial Medical Officers (MOs) serving in Kenya, Uganda …

2007

#9350

Medieval Islamic medicine.

2007

#9620

Allenby's military medicine: Life and death in World War I Palestine.

2007

#9737

Das Handbuch Muššuɔu "Einreibung". Eine Serie sumerische und akkadischer Beschwörungen aus dem 1. Jt. vor Chr.

Reproduction, transcription, translation into German, and edition of the Muššuɔu unction handbook— a collection of Sumerian and Akkadian incantations of the 1st century BCE.

2007

#12307

Zwischen Magie und Wissenschaft: Ärzte und Heilkunst in den Papyri aus Ägypten.

2007

#13304

Disability in Islamic law.

2008

#7412

Ibn Baklarish's book of simples: Medical remedies between three faiths in twelfth-century Spain. Edited by Charles Burnett.

The Kitāb al-Musta'īnī by Ibn Biklarish, written in the Moorish Spain province of al-Andalus at the end of the 11th century, includes the first tables of simple medicines written in the region, "concentrating on facin…

2008

#7925

Healing traditions: African medicine, cultural exchange, and competition in South Africa, 1820-1948.

2008

#7943

The administration of sickness: Medicine and ethics in nineteenth century Algeria.

2008

#8234

Biographical index of the Middle Ages. 2 vols.

Contains 130,000 very brief biographical notes compiled from nearly 200 references (which are cited) on roughly 95,000 people from Europe and the Middle East during the 1000 years of the Middle Ages. The text is searc…

2008

#9231

War Surgery in Afghanistan and Iraq: A series of cases, 2003-2007. Edited by Shawn Christian Nessen, Dave Edmond Lounsbury, and Stephen P. Hetz.

Exceptionally well illustrated with color photographs.