A Literary History of Medicine - The ʿUyūn al-anbāʾ fī ṭabaqāt al-aṭibbāʾ of Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah
- Submitting institution
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The University of Warwick
- Unit of assessment
- 29 - Classics
- Output identifier
- 10326
- Type
- R - Scholarly edition
- DOI
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10.1163/37704
- Title of edition
- A Literary History of Medicine - The ʿUyūn al-anbāʾ fī ṭabaqāt al-aṭibbāʾ of Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah
- Publisher
- Brill
- ISBN
- 9789004410312
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- December
- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
- 25 - Area Studies
- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
- -
- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This key work of 3,701 pages (three volumes published in five) is the fruit of a double Wellcome Trust Investigator Award (Swain PI on the Warwick grant). Published in Brill’s flagship Handbook of Oriental Studies series, it constitutes a standard work of reference in the fields of Arabic literature and History of Medicine and offers a complete, annotated translation along with a new edition of the celebrated history of medicine by the Syrian physician Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah (d. 1270), together with several introductory essays. Swain had 1/3 responsibility throughout the five volumes for editorial material/work.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This key work of 3,701 pages (five volumes published in three) is the fruit of a double Wellcome Trust Investigator Award (Swain was PI on the Warwick grant). It offers a complete, annotated translation along with a new edition of the celebrated history of medicine by the Syrian physician Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah (d. 1270), together with several introductory essays. Swain had 1/3 responsibility throughout the five volumes for editorial material/work as follows: vol 1: xx+500; vol. 2.1-2.2: xv+1467; vol. 3.1-3.2: xv+1664) for all editorial material and work incl. bibliography and indexes; he is specifically responsible for vol. 1 ‘introductory remarks’, 1.7, vol. 2.5, vol. 3.1 (⅓), 3.2 (½), 3.3 (⅓), 3.4 (½), 3.5, 3.6 (½).
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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