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Darrera modificació: 2009-11-18
Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Chipman, Leigh, The World of Pharmacy and Pharmacists in Mamlūk Cairo, Leiden, E. J. Brill (Sir Henry Wellcome Asian Series, 8), 2009, 290 pp.
- Resum
- This is the first detailed analysis of an immensely popular 13th c. Arabic guide for pharmacists, Minhāj al-dukkān (“How to manage a pharmacy”), by Abū ʾl-Munā al-Kūhīn al-ʿAṭṭār (fl. 1260), dating from a time in which Jewish physicians and pharmacists worked alongside Muslim and Christian practioners. This is the first attempt to explore the full spectrum of pharmacy in the medieval Arabic world: identification of the materia medica and methods of preparation; pharmacy’s place within the sciences and particularly its relationship with medicine; the social position of the pharmacist and his role in the marketplace and the hospital; the economics of pharmacy; legal aspects of pharmacy; and the image of the pharmacist in literature and drama. The result is a full and nuanced picture of a section of society usually invisible.
- Matèries
- Medicina - Farmacologia
Arabisme
Hospitals
Història de la literatura
- Notes
- Fitxa de l'editor: http://www.brill.nl/default.aspx?partid=210&pid=33853
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