Medical Prescriptions in the Cambridge Genizah Collections
Practical Medicine and Pharmacology in Medieval Egypt. Cambridge Genizah Studies Series 4
Efraim Lev, Haifa University and Leigh Chipman, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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Biographical note
Efraim Lev, Ph.D. (1999), Bar-Ilan, is a historian of medicine, an ethno-pharmacologist, and professor at the Department of Eretz Israel Studies at Haifa University, Israel. He has published monographs and many articles on the history of medicine in Israel and the Middle East.
Leigh Chipman, Ph.D. (2006), Hebrew University of Jerusalem, works on the social and intellectual history of medicine and science in the medieval Islamicate world. She is author of The World of Pharmacy and Pharmacists in Mamlūk Cairo (Brill, 2010) and several articles.
Leigh Chipman, Ph.D. (2006), Hebrew University of Jerusalem, works on the social and intellectual history of medicine and science in the medieval Islamicate world. She is author of The World of Pharmacy and Pharmacists in Mamlūk Cairo (Brill, 2010) and several articles.
Readership
All interested in the history of medicine and pharmcology, mainly the medieval and the Middle Eastern; and anyone concerned with Genizah studies.
Table of contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1 – The Theoretical Background of the Genizah Prescriptions
Chapter 2 –The Practical Medicine of the Cairo Genizah
Chapter 3 – Thirty selected prescriptions
Chapter 4 – The Findings and their Significance
Epilogue
Bibliography
Glossary
Index
Introduction
Chapter 1 – The Theoretical Background of the Genizah Prescriptions
Chapter 2 –The Practical Medicine of the Cairo Genizah
Chapter 3 – Thirty selected prescriptions
Chapter 4 – The Findings and their Significance
Epilogue
Bibliography
Glossary
Index
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