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