Infectious ideas :
Stearns, Justin K., 1974-
Infectious ideas : contagion in premodern Islamic and Christian thought in the Western Mediterranean / Justin K. Stearns. - 1 online resource (302 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contagion in the commentaries on prophetic tradition -- Contagion as metaphor in Iberian Christian scholarship -- Contagion contested : Greek medical knowledge, prophetic medicine, and the first plague treatises -- Situating scholastic contagion between miasma and the evil eye -- Contagion between Islamic law and theology -- Contagion revisited : early modern Maghribi plague treatises -- Reframing Muslim and Christian views on contagion.
9781421401058 (e-book)
Diseases--Causes and theories of causation--History--To 1500.
Medicine, Medieval--Western Mediterranean.
Epidemiology--History--To 1500.
Medicine--Religious aspects--Islam--History--To 1500.
Medicine--Religious aspects--Christianity--History--To 1500.
Electronic books.
RB152 / .S74 2011eb
362.196/9
Infectious ideas : contagion in premodern Islamic and Christian thought in the Western Mediterranean / Justin K. Stearns. - 1 online resource (302 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contagion in the commentaries on prophetic tradition -- Contagion as metaphor in Iberian Christian scholarship -- Contagion contested : Greek medical knowledge, prophetic medicine, and the first plague treatises -- Situating scholastic contagion between miasma and the evil eye -- Contagion between Islamic law and theology -- Contagion revisited : early modern Maghribi plague treatises -- Reframing Muslim and Christian views on contagion.
9781421401058 (e-book)
Diseases--Causes and theories of causation--History--To 1500.
Medicine, Medieval--Western Mediterranean.
Epidemiology--History--To 1500.
Medicine--Religious aspects--Islam--History--To 1500.
Medicine--Religious aspects--Christianity--History--To 1500.
Electronic books.
RB152 / .S74 2011eb
362.196/9