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14Infants, Parents and Wet Nurses: Medieval Islamic Views on Breastfeeding and Their Social Implications cationsJournal of the American Oriental Society 123 (2): 440. 2003.
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73Galen and Astrology: A Mésalliance?Early Science and Medicine 16 (2): 120-146. 2011.The author examines the question of Galen's affinity with astrology, in view of Galen's extended astrological discussion in the De diebus decretoriis . The critical passages from Galen are examined, and shown to be superficial in understanding. The author performs a lexical sounding of Galen's corpus, using key terms with astrological valences drawn from the Critical Days, and assesses their absence in Galen's other works. He compares Galen's astrology with the astrology of Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos…Read more
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27Rational and Empirical Medicine in Ninth-Century Baghdad: Qusṭā Ibn Lūqā's Questions on the Critical Days in Acute IllnessesArabic Sciences and Philosophy 24 (1): 69-102. 2014.RésuméCet article examine une brève présentation catéchétique de la doctrine médicale galénique des jours critiques composée par le traducteur et penseur duixesiècle Qusṭā ibn Lūqā (m. 912/3) et que l'on a trouvée dans un manuscrit iranien. Tout d'abord, on démontre que cette œuvre a été composée à partir du traité de Galien sur les jours critiques. Ensuite, on la discute section par section, sous forme de commentaire, pour élucider les doctrines médicales proposées par Qusṭā. Enfin, l'œuvre est…Read more
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25The Qurʾān's Self-Image: Writing and Authority in Islam's ScriptureThe Quran's Self-Image: Writing and Authority in Islam's ScriptureJournal of the American Oriental Society 123 (1): 247. 2003.
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14Constantine the African and ʿAlī ibn al-ʿAbbās al-Maǧūsī: The Pantegni and Related TextsConstantine the African and Ali ibn al-Abbas al-Magusi: The Pantegni and Related TextsJournal of the American Oriental Society 118 (3): 411. 1998.
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20The reception of Galen. G. Bos, Y.t. Langermann the alexandrian summaries of Galen's on critical days. Editions and translations of the two versions of the jawāmiʿ, with an introduction and notes. Pp. X + 151, ills. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2015. Cased, €90, us$125. Isbn: 978-90-04-28221-6 (review)The Classical Review 66 (2): 383-385. 2016.
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Astrology: The Science of Signs in the HeavensIn J. Scarborough & P. T. Keyser (eds.), The Oxford Handbook to Science and Medicine in the Classical World, . pp. 381-407. 2018.
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6Erased History: The Forgotten Arabic Sources of the Western Renaissance (review)Metascience 28 (1): 125-128. 2018.
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Avicenna and the Contest of Healing: Medical Crises and the Body Politic Metaphor in the Canon of MedicineIn Kadircan Hidir Keskinbora (ed.), Revisiting Ibn Sina's (Avicenna) heritage, Peter Lang. 2021.
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24Numbers, Prognosis, and Healing: Galen on Medical TheoryJournal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 90 (2): 45-60. 2004.
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1Medical Crises and Critical Days in Ibn Sīnā and After: Insights from the Commentary TraditionIntellectual History of the Islamicate World 6 (1-2): 27-54. 2018.
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31Hagar Banished: Departing from the Latin Galen and its Arabic Sources in the Aldine EditionEarly Science and Medicine 17 (6): 604-642. 2012.The Aldine edition of Galen’s works, prepared by humanists anxious to replace the medieval Latin translations with a purely Greek text, certainly represents an advance in scholarship. However, widespread anti-Arabic prejudices of the time precluded most humanists, including the Aldine editors, from perceiving anything of value in the Latin Galenic textual tradition, which was characterized as representing a Galen that had passed through the corrupting influence of Arabic. This paper considers th…Read more
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This volume presents the first edition of the Arabic translation, by Hunayn ibn Ishaq, of Galen's Critical Days (De diebus decretoriis), together with the first translation of the text into a modern language. The substantial introduction contextualizes the treatise within the Greek and Arabic traditions. Galen's Critical Days was a founding text of astrological medicine. In febrile illnesses, the critical days are the days on which an especially severe pattern of symptoms, a crisis, was likely t…Read more
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20Galen - Mattern Galen and the Rhetoric of Healing. Pp. xii + 279. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. Cased, £36.50, US$55. ISBN: 978-0-8018-8835-9 (review)The Classical Review 60 (2): 400-402. 2010.
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