The Doctors' Dinner Party (Library of Arabic Literature) - Softcover

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9781479827480: The Doctors' Dinner Party (Library of Arabic Literature)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1479827487 ISBN 13: 9781479827480
Verlag: New York University, 2024

Inhaltsangabe

A witty satire of the medical profession
The Doctors' Dinner Party is an eleventh-century satire in the form of a novella, set in a medical milieu. A young doctor from out of town is invited to dinner with a group of older medical men, whose conversation reveals their incompetence. Written by the accomplished physician Ibn Bu lan, the work satirizes the hypocrisy of quack doctors while displaying Ibn Bu lan's own deep technical knowledge of medical practice, including surgery, blood-letting, and medicines. He also makes reference to the great thinkers and physicians of the ancient world, including Hippocrates, Galen, and Socrates.
Combining literary parody with social satire, the book is richly textured and carefully organized: in addition to the use of the question-and-answer format associated with technical literature, it is replete with verse and subtexts that hint at the infatuation of the elderly practitioners with their young guest. The Doctors' Dinner Party is an entertaining read in which the author skewers the pretensions of the physicians around the table.
An English-only edition.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Ibn Bu?lan (Author)
Ibn Bu?lan (d. 460/1068) was a Christian physician and scholar from Baghdad.

Philip F. Kennedy (Translator)
Philip F. Kennedy is Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies and Comparative Literature at New York University, and General Editor of the Library of Arabic Literature. He is the author of Recognition in the Arabic Narrative Tradition.

Jeremy Farrell (Translator)
Jeremy Farrell holds a Ph.D. from Emory University. His publications analyze diverse aspects of pre-modern Islamic society, including sarcastic speech acts, transgressive modes of piety, and the formation of cooperative networks.

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Verlag
New York University
Erscheinungsdatum
2024
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1479827487
ISBN 13 
9781479827480
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
168
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Mare Nostrum Group B.V.
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Doelen 72
Breda
4831 GR
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