Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Doctors' Dinner PartyCondition: NewFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 02/28/2023EAN: 9781479818778ISBN-10: 1479818771ISBN: 9781479818778Publisher: New York University PressDescription: A witty satire of the medical professionThe 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.A bilingual Arabic-English edition.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmAuthor: Ibn BuṭlānContributor: Jeremy Farrell (Edited and translated by), Philip F. Kennedy (Edited and translated by)Genre: Literary CriticismBook Series: Library of Arabic LiteratureItem Weight: 503gType: History & CriticismTopic: FictionRelease Year: 2023 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: The Doctors' Dinner Party
Title: The Doctors' Dinner Party
Release Date: 02/28/2023
Release Year: 2023
EAN: 9781479818778
ISBN-10: 1479818771
ISBN: 9781479818778
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Contributor: Philip F. Kennedy (Edited and translated by)
Series: Library of Arabic Literature
Type: History & Criticism
Book Title: Doctors' Dinner Party
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: New York University Press
Topic: Middle Eastern, Medical
Item Height: 0.8 in
Publication Year: 2023
Genre: Fiction, Literary Collections
Item Weight: 17.8 Oz
Author: Ibn BuṭLāN
Item Length: 9.3 in
Book Series: Library of Arabic Literature Ser.
Item Width: 6.5 in
Format: Hardcover
