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The Doctors' Dinner Party

Autor: Philip F. Kennedy, Jeremy Farrell
Jazyk: Angličtina
Vazba: Brožovaná
Vydavatel: NEW YORK UNIV PR
Dostupnost: Skladem u dodavatele
Odesíláme za 14-21 dnů
283 Kč
A witty satire of the medical professionThe Doctors' Dinner Party is an eleventh-century satire in t...

Informace o knize

Autor
Philip F. Kennedy, Jeremy Farrell
Jazyk
Angličtina
Vazba
Kniha - Brožovaná
Vydáno
2024
Stránek
250
EAN
9781479827480
ISBN
1479827487
Enbook ID
44269252
Vydavatel
NEW YORK UNIV PR
Hmotnost
181

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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, including surgery, blood-letting, and medicines. He also makes reference to the great thinkers and physicians of the ancient world, including Hippocrates, Galen, and Socrates.

Combining literary parody with social satire, the book is richly textured and carefully organized: in addition to the use of the question-and-answer format associated with technical literature, it is replete with verse and subtexts that hint at the infatuation of the elderly practitioners with their young guest. The Doctors' Dinner Party is an entertaining read in which the author skewers the pretensions of the physicians around the table.

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