1. Faith and Medicine: Views of Mental Illness in Islamic Medic
... to make the Greek tradition more accessible, understandable, and teachable, Islamic scholars ordered and made more systematic the vast and sometime inconsistent Greco-Roman medical knowledge by writing encyclopedias and summaries (Murray, 1983). This extensive literature was not specialized in the sense that modern medical literature is. Rather, it was integrated with learned traditions in philosophy, natural science, mathematics, astrology, alchemy ... going from court to court, being well paid for his services, but often having to escape retribution from jealous courtiers and others (...
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