Article ID: CBB468583293

Disease in Tenth-Century Iran and Irak According to al-Rāzī’s Casebook (2015)

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This article addresses the sum of diseases found in al-Razi’s Casebook, the oldest and largest extant collection of medieval Islamic medical case records. This study is framed in M. Grmek’s concept of pathocenosis that can be explained by the interaction of diseases at a given time and place as a consequence of external and internal factors, a premise with relevant implications for medicine today. Our primary aim is to provide a glimpse of health concerns and the prevalence of pathological conditions in tenth-century Iran and Irak. In the context of the historiographical debate about retrospective diagnosis, it also encompasses an analysis of specific difficulties raised by this particular collection of nearly nine hundred clinical accounts. A further purpose is to inquire whether the nature of the source under discussion makes any difference when trying to identify the condition from a modern medical perspective.

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Authors & Contributors
Dalfardi, Behnam
Yarmohammadi, Hassan
Amar, Zohar
Ayari-Lassueur, Sylvie
Bellinghieri, Guido
Bos, Gerrit
Journals
Journal of the History of the Neurosciences
Studies in History of Medicine and Science
Economic Botany
Gesnerus
Journal for the History of Astronomy
Social History of Medicine
Publishers
Brill
Editions Peeters
Editoriale Bios
Concepts
Arab/Islamic world, civilization and culture
Medicine
Disease and diseases
Geometry
Hospitals and clinics
Therapeutic practice; therapy; treatment
People
al-Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakariyyā
al-Zahrawi, Abu al-Qasim
Avicenna
Abubakr Rabi-ibn Ahmad Akhawayni Bukhari
al-Bīrūnī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad
al-Fārābī, Abū Naṣr Muḥammd ibn Muḥammad
Time Periods
10th century
Medieval
11th century
9th century
Ancient
17th century
Places
Persia (Iran)
Andalusia (Spain)
Ottoman Empire
Greece
North Africa
Iraq
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