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The article is about the relationship between medicine and philosophy.
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Clarifies the importance of Avicenna's philosophy in post-classical Arabo-Islamic medical writing.
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Addresses questions raised by Dimitri Gutas and Jon McGinnis in earlier writings.
Kamran Karimullah
University of Manchester
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This page is a summary of: Transformation of Galen’s Textual Legacy from Classical to Post-Classical Islamic Medicine: Commentaries on the Hippocratic Aphorisms, Intellectual History of the Islamicate World, January 2017, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/2212943x-00503004.
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