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Avicenna´S Medicine: A New Translation of the 11th-Century Canon with Practical Applications for Integrative Health Care
Mones Abu-Asab
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Description for Avicenna´S Medicine: A New Translation of the 11th-Century Canon with Practical Applications for Integrative Health Care
Hardback. The first contemporary translation of the 1,000-year-old text at the foundation of modern medicine and biology. Num Pages: 448 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBN; MBX; VXH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 164 x 39. Weight in Grams: 780.
A millennium after his life, Avicenna remains one of the most highly regarded physicians of all time. His Canon of Medicine, also known as the Qanun, is one of the most famous and influential books in the history of medicine, forming the basis for our modern understanding of human health and disease. It focused not simply on the treatment of symptoms, but on finding the cause of illness through humoral diagnosis—a method still used in traditional Unani and Ayurvedic medicines in India. Originally written in Arabic, Avicenna’s Canonwas long ago translated into Latin, Persian, and Urdu, yet many of the ... Read more
A millennium after his life, Avicenna remains one of the most highly regarded physicians of all time. His Canon of Medicine, also known as the Qanun, is one of the most famous and influential books in the history of medicine, forming the basis for our modern understanding of human health and disease. It focused not simply on the treatment of symptoms, but on finding the cause of illness through humoral diagnosis—a method still used in traditional Unani and Ayurvedic medicines in India. Originally written in Arabic, Avicenna’s Canonwas long ago translated into Latin, Persian, and Urdu, yet many of the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Inner Traditions Bear and Company United States
Number of pages
448
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
Rochester, United States
ISBN
9781594774324
SKU
V9781594774324
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99-3
About Mones Abu-Asab
Mones Abu-Asab, Ph.D., is a senior scientist at the National Eye Institute of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. Hakima Amri, Ph.D., is associate professor of biochemistry and molecular and cellular biology at Georgetown University and cofounder and codirector of Georgetown’s Complementary and Alternative Medicine Graduate Program. Marc S. Micozzi, M.D., Ph.D., is adjunct professor of pharmacology and ... Read more
Reviews for Avicenna´S Medicine: A New Translation of the 11th-Century Canon with Practical Applications for Integrative Health Care
“Avicenna’s Canon is not only the most important and influential single text in the history of medicine, it is also the main work of reference for a major traditional school of medicine that is still alive and has much to teach us today. The present translation, Avicenna’s Medicine, is welcome not only because it makes many of the ideas of ... Read more