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Author Maimonides, Moses

Title The Preservation of Youth : Essays on Health
Published Newburyport : Philosophical Library/Open Road, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (62 pages)
Contents Cover Page; Title Page; Maimonides as Physician and Medical Author; Introduction; Contents; A Letter from Rabbi Moses ben Maimon to the Sultan (Al Afdal, the Son of Saladin, 1198-1200); I About the Care of Health in General, Fit for Every Man and Stated Briefly; II The Care of Patients in the Absence of a Physician or in the Presence of a Physician Who Is Not Adequate and Not Experienced in This Science; III The Care of My Lord in Particular, According to the Condition He Complains of
Summary Based on his Jewish faith, Maimonides fused neo-Aristotelian philosophy with the Jewish legal tradition into a systemic whole. In his main philosophic work, The Guide for the Perplexed, he attempted to appeal to rationalists troubled by the personal embodiment of God in the biblical accounts. It is in that rational spirit that he provided a strikingly modern work to be used by patients and practicing physicians alike. Capitalizing on his vast practical experience as a physician, combined with his knowledge of classical and medieval principles of healing, Maimonides was able to provide a comp
Notes IV Helpful Hints in General, and in Particular, for the Healthy and for the Sick, in Every Place and in Every SeasonCopyright Page
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Subject Health -- Early works to 1800
Medicine, Arab.
Medicine, Arabic
RELIGION -- Judaism -- General.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Healthy Living.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Holism.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Reference.
MEDICAL -- Preventive Medicine.
Health.
Medicine, Arab.
Genre/Form Early works.
Form Electronic book
Author Gordon, Hirsch L
ISBN 9781497675940
1497675944