Decline and Decadence in Iraq and Syria after the Age of Avicenna? 'Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi (1162-1231) between Myth and History

作者：Joosse N Peter; Pormann Peter E

来源：Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 2010, 84(1): 1-29.

• medieval Islam
• social history
• medical epistemology
• women
• charlatans
• medical education
• 'Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi (d. 1231)
• Ibn Sina (Avicenna, d. 1037)

'Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi's (d. 1231) work Book of the two Pieces of Advice (Kitab al Nasihatayn) challenges the idea that Islamic medicine declined after the twelfth century AD. Moreover, it offers some interesting insights into the social history of medicine. 'Abd al-Latif advocated using the framework of Greek medical epistemology to criticize the rationalist physicians of his day; he argued that female and itinerant practitioners, relying on experience, were superior to some rationalists. He lambasted contemporaneous medical education because it put too much faith in a restricted number of textbooks such as the Canon by Ibn sina (Avicenna, d. 1037) or imperfect abridgments.

• 出版日期2010