The Doctors' Dinner Party
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- Paperback
168 pages
- Release Date
4 March 2024
Summary
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 Buṭlān, the work satirizes the hypocrisy of quack doctors while displaying Ibn Buṭlān’s own deep technical knowledge of medical practice, …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781479827480 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1479827487 |
| Author: | Philip F. Kennedy, Jeremy Farrell, Emily Gowers, Ibn Buṭlān |
| Publisher: | New York University Press |
| Imprint: | New York University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 168 |
| Release Date: | 4 March 2024 |
| Weight: | 236g |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 140mm |
| Series: | Library of Arabic Literature |
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”[Doctors’ Dinner Party] will undoubtedly fill out what otherwise might have been a severely incomplete picture of Abbasid society.“– “Al-Ahram Weekly”“Thought-provoking in our modern-day culture of medicine … While The Doctors’ Dinner Party takes place in a setting far removed from ours in time and place, we can learn about the continuities and discontinuities in medicine over time”– “Family Medicine”
About The Author
Philip F. Kennedy
Ibn Buṭlān (Author)
Ibn Buṭlān (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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