Research Catalog

Title

Ariel : essays on the arts and the history and philosophy of medicine / Félix Martí-Ibáñez.

Author

Martí-Ibáñez, Félix, 1915-1972.

Publication

New York : MD Publications, [©1962]

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Details

Description

xiii, 292 pages : illustrations

Subject

• Medicine > History
• Medicine
• Medicine > Philosophy
• History of Medicine
• Philosophy, Medical
• Medicine
• history of medicine
• medicines (material)
• medicine (discipline)
• Medicine > Philosophy

Genre/Form

• History
• Essays.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliography.

Contents

Introduction : under the sign of the angel -- Through the magic door of words. The fabric and creation of a dream ; More magic in words ; Friends for the road ; No books on the ferry from Hong Kong ; Tell me a story -- The wonder-world of symbols. Symbols and medicine ; On an Armenian "flying carpet" -- The march of medical history. The great historical challenges in medicine ; The first thirty years ; "That skill that death loves not" ; The mind of a man -- The epic of medicine . Prelude of mist : Prehistoric and magic medicine ; Lands of sun, lands of death : Mesopotamia and Egyptian medicine (6000 B.C.-600 B.C.) ; At dawn the sun shines : Greek medicine (776 B.C.-285 B.C.) ; A torrent of lions : medicine in Imperial Rome (285 B.C-A.D. 476) ; Through a stained glass window : Byzantine medicine (476-1453) ; While Scheherazade tells her tales : Arabian medicine (732-1096) ; The cross and the eagle : monastic and university medicine (1096-1453) ; In a sunlit garden : medicine in the Renaissance (1453-1600) ; Whirlwind in the soul : medicine in the Baroque age (1600-1700) ; Stars and glowworms : medicine in the Enlightenment (1700-1800) ; Tapestry with figures : medicine in the nineteenth century ; A vast threshold : medicine in the twentieth century -- Journeys, ports, peoples. The family of man ; Vast and wide is the world ; The restless emerald ; The chase of the butterfly ; Deports et solatz ; Those glittering towers ; The great physician and great friend from Kyushu -- Love, lust, and letters. Ars amandi ; Casanova, then and now ; A letter from Madame -- The marvels of man. The mask and the mirror ; The miracle tool ; The eye and the glance -- The philosophy of medicine. Doctors must tell ; Man, as nature and as history -- Religio medici. To be a doctor ; The young princes ; The legacy of St. Luke.

LCCN

62008490

OCLC

• ocm01437213
• 1437213
• SCSB-143282

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library