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Book SynopsisThis critical edition and lexicological analysis of the first of the two glossaries of Book 29 of Shem Tov ben Isaac's Sefer ha-Shimmush contains more than 700 entries and offfers an extensive overview of the formation of medieval medical terminology in the romance (Old Occitan and in part Old Catalan) and Hebrew languages, as well as within the Arabic and Latin tradition.Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION 1. General overview and preliminaries 2. Medieval synonym lists in Hebrew characters 3. Shem Tov’s synonym lists in the Sefer ha-Shimmush 4. How Shem Tov’s synonym lists were compiled 5. The vernacular element 6. The edition and the commentary Bibliography Plates EDITION OF SEFER HA-SHIMMUSH, BOOK 28, SYNONYM LIST 1

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Book SynopsisThis edited volume includes studies of discourses about bodily and psychiatric illness in modern China, bringing together scholarships that reconfigure the fields of history, literature, film, psychology, anthropology, and gender studies by tracing the pathological path of China through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries into the new millennium.Trade Review"a fascinating examination of the way in which discourses of disease have developed in China from the late nineteenth century on. The contributors are a mix of well-established names and newer scholars from institutions in the US, Hong Kong and Australia, and from several disciplines—predominantly Chinese Studies-related, but also comparative literature and education—which allows for a range of approaches and perspectives." Sarah Dauncey, University of Nottingham, Journal of the British Association for Chinese Studies, Vol. 7 July 2017Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures List of Contributors Introduction: Disease and Discourse Howard Y. F. Choy Part I Hygiene and Psychosis: From Routine to Poetry 1. James Henderson’s Shanghai Hygiene and the British Constitution in Early Modern China Stephanie Villalta Puig 2. Curing Unhappiness in Revolutionary China: Optimism under Socialism and Capitalism Wendy Larson 3. Metaphors unto Themselves: Mental Illness Poetics and Narratives in Contemporary Chinese Poetry Birgit Linder Part II Drugs and Cancers: From Nation to Fiction 4. Unmaking of Nationalism: Drug Addiction and Its Literary Imagination in Bi Shumin’s Novel Haomin Gong 5. Narrative as Therapy: Stories of Breast Cancer by Bi Shumin and Xi Xi Howard Y. F. Choy 6. Narrating Cancer, Disabilities, and AIDS: Yan Lianke’s Trilogy of Disease Shelley W. Chan Part III AIDS and Virus: From Film to Forum 7. Reluctant Transcendence: AIDS and the Catastrophic Condition in Gu Changwei’s Film Love for Life Kun Qian 8. Alone Together: Contagion, Stigmatization and Utopia as Therapy in Zhao Liang’s AIDS Documentary Together Li Li 9. The Unknown Virus: The Social Logic of Bio-conspiracy Theories in Contemporary China Kevin Carrico Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume is part of a wider project aiming at mapping the technical medical terminology as it features in medieval Hebrew medical works, especially those terms that do not feature in the current dictionaries at all, or insufficiently. In this way the author hopes to facilitate the consultation of these and other medical works and the identification of anonymous medical material. The terminology discussed in this volume has been derived from three primary and seven secondary sources. The primary sources are: (1) Sefer Ṣedat ha-Derakhim – Moses Ibn Tibbon’s translation of Ibn al-Jazzār’s Zād al-musāfir, bks. 1–2; (2) Sefer ha-Shimmush – Shem Tov Ben Isaac’s Hebrew translation of al-Zahrāwī’s Kitāb al-taṣrīf; (3) Sefer ha-Qanun – Nathan ha-Meʾati’s Hebrew translation of the first book of Ibn Sīnā’s K. al-Qānūn.

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Book SynopsisThe original Arabic text of Maimonides’ major medical work, Medical Aphorisms, was critically edited and translated into English by Gerrit Bos in the years 2004-2017, and published in earlier volumes of the book series The Medical Works of Moses Maimonides. The present work is a new critical edition of the medieval Hebrew translation by Nathan ha-Meʾati, who was active as a translator of scientific texts in Rome in the late thirteenth century, where his colleague Zeraḥyah Ḥen had completed a translation of the same Maimonidean text in 1277, only a few years earlier. Nathan aimed to provide the general reader with a translation that was easier to understand than Zeraḥyah's translation. The present critical edition of Nathan’s translation is primarily based on MS Paris, BN, héb. 1174, and not on MS Paris, BN, héb. 1173, used by Suessmann Muntner for his edition in 1959, as this copy suffers from many mistakes and corruptions.Trade Review"...an exemplary ongoing series..." - Maud Kozodoy, in: Speculum 96 (April 2021)Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Sigla and Abbreviations Medical Aphorisms: Hebrew Translation (Nathan ha-Meʾati) Appendix 1 Appendix 2 Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume is both a continuation of the four already published titles in the series (2011–19) and an addition to the Concise Dictionary of Novel Medical and General Hebrew Terminology from the Middle Ages. It continues mapping the medical terminology featured in medieval Hebrew medical works in order to facilitate study of medical terms that do not appear in the existing dictionaries, as well as identifying the medical terminology used by specific authors and translators in order to identify anonymous medical material. The terminology discussed in this volume has been derived from fourteen different sources, including translations of Ibn al-Jazzār’s Zād al-musāfir by Moses ibn Tibbon (Sefer Ṣedat ha-Derakhim) and the otherwise unknown Abraham ben Isaac (Sefer Ṣedah la-Oreḥim), as well as the translation of Constantine the Africanʼs Latin version (Viaticum) prepared by Do’eg ha-Edomi (Sefer Yaʾir Netiv).

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Book SynopsisProfessor Dr Fuat Sezgin meticulously documented the scientific writings and advances achieved by Muslim scholars. His celebrated Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums (GAS), the largest bio-bibliography for the Arabic literary tradition in general, and the history of science and technology in the Islamic world in particular, is still of utmost importance for the field.Table of ContentsPreface 1 Alchemy and Chemistry  I. Introduction  II. Sources  III. Arab Alchemists and Chemists 2 Botany and Agriculture  I. Introduction  II. Sources  III. Arab Botanists and Agronomists Addenda Bibliography Index of Authors Index of Book Titles Index of Modern Authors, Publishers, Editors

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