EP007 Dr. Elaine van Dalen on Arabic commentaries on Hippocratic paediatrics

Originally recorded 21 August 2019 via Zencastr. Produced by Talha Ahsan. 00.00 Introduction and biography 01.45 Arabic Commentaries on the Hippocratic Aphorisms project at the university of Manchester 02.25 A description of the Hippocratic Aphorisms 03.30 A survey of Arabic commentaries 04.20 Why look at paediatrics? 05.25 On the five aphorisms of paediatrics 06.55 Commentators disputing classifications within paediatrics 07.55 On the importance of Galen to the Arabic commentators Dr Kamran Karimullah 09.23 On how Galen can elucidate Hippocratic paediatrics 11.10 On translators as trained philologists as well as medics 12.39 Arabic commentators disputing Galen 14.45 Arabic commentators rejecting Galen 16.06 Gendered division of theoretical and practical medicine? 18.50 Resemblance to scriptural commentaries? 20.04 Arabic commentaries as historical sources of lost Greek commentaries 21.30 On learning Greek, Hebrew and Syriac as an Arabist https://brill.com/view/title/1456?lang=en https://www.amazon.com/Robinsons-Paradigms-Exercises-Syriac-Grammar/dp/0199261296 https://www.cambridge.org/nl/academic/subjects/classical-studies/classical-languages/reading-greek-grammar-and-exercises-2nd-edition?format=PB&isbn=9780521698528 https://www.amazon.com/Grammar-Biblical-Hebrew-Subsidia-Biblica/dp/8876536299 23.13 Introductory texts to medieval Islamic sciences Medieval Islamic MedicinePeter E. Pormann + Emilie Savage-Smith (Edinburgh University Press 2007) Islamic Science and the Making of the European RenaissanceGeorge Salibas (MIT Press 2007) 24.25 On studying a PhD for a topic not of your choosing 29.00 Forthcoming projects and on going from Manchester to New York Mighty Have Fallen by Ruth Dinosaur (c) Dr. Emily Selove (2019) You can follow Dr. van Dalen on Twitter @elainevdalen