The Doctors' Dinner Party / / Ibn Buṭlān; ed. by Jeremy Farrell, Philip F. Kennedy.
A witty satire of the medical professionThe 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 acc...
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2023] ©2023 |
Year of Publication: | 2023 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Library of Arabic Literature ;
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Letter from the General Editor
- Table of Contents
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Map: The World of Ibn Buṭlān
- Note on the Text
- Notes to the Introduction
- The Doctors’ Dinner Party
- Introduction
- Part the First: The “Opening Chapter” of the Book, in Praise of Baghdad and Denigration of Mayyāfāriqīn for Its Stagnation
- Part the Second: Concerning the Offering of a Meal, and the Presentation of Decisive Arguments against Eating the Foods Provided
- Part the Third: A Description of the Symposium and its Pleasures, and a Conversation among the Doctors Present
- Part the Fourth: In Which the Physiologist Probes the Extent of the Guest’s Competence, Thereby Exposing His Ignorance
- Part the Fifth: The Ignorance of the Guest Revealed by the Questions of the Oculist
- Part the Sixth: In Which the Surgeon Considers the Guest’s Knowledge of Anatomy and Physiology
- Part the Seventh: The Examination of the Phlebotomist on the Requisite Knowledge of the Physiology of Venesection
- Part the Eighth: The Examination of the Apothecary on the Guest’s Knowledge of Remedies and Medicines
- Part the Ninth: Concerning Slanderous Doctors who are Scornful of the Sick
- Part the Tenth: A Defense of the Devoted Doctor and a Denigration of the One Who Displaced Him
- Part the Eleventh: The Public’s Denigration of the Medical Profession and the Riposte
- Part the Twelfth: The Conclusion of the Book and a Return Visit Rebuffed
- Notes
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Further Reading
- Index of Materia Medica
- Index of Verse
- Index
- About the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute
- About the Typefaces
- Titles Published by the Library of Arabic Literature
- About the Editor–Translators