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Author	Stearns, Justin K., 1974-
Title	Infectious ideas : contagion in premodern Islamic and Christian thought in the Western Mediterranean / Justin K. Stearns
Imprint	Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2011

LOCATION	CALL #	STATUS	OPACMSG	BARCODE
Chinese Lit.&Phi. Lib.	410.162 S799	AVAILABLE		30580002849847
Modern History Library	362.1969 S799	AVAILABLE		30550100523818

Descript	xx, 279 p. ; 24 cm
Note	Includes bibliographical references and index
	Contagion in the commentaries on prophetic tradition -- Contagion as metaphor in Iberian Christian scholarship -- Contagion contested : Greek medical knowledge, prophetic medicine, and the first plague treatises -- Situating scholastic contagion between miasma and the evil eye -- Contagion between Islamic law and theology -- Contagion revisited : early modern Maghribi plague treatises -- Reframing Muslim and Christian views on contagion
Subject	Diseases -- Causes and theories of causation -- History -- To 1500
	Medicine, Medieval -- Western Mediterranean
	Epidemiology -- History -- To 1500
	Medicine -- Religious aspects -- Islam -- History -- To 1500
	Medicine -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History -- To 1500
	Medicine in Literature -- Africa, Northern
	Medicine in Literature -- Portugal
	Medicine in Literature -- Spain
	Christianity -- history -- Africa, Northern
	Christianity -- history -- Portugal
	Christianity -- history -- Spain
	Communicable Diseases -- Africa, Northern
	Communicable Diseases -- Portugal
	Communicable Diseases -- Spain
	Cross-Cultural Comparison -- Africa, Northern
	Cross-Cultural Comparison -- Portugal
	Cross-Cultural Comparison -- Spain
	Islam -- history -- Africa, Northern
	Islam -- history -- Portugal
	Islam -- history -- Spain
	Leprosy -- history -- Africa, Northern
	Leprosy -- history -- Portugal
	Leprosy -- history -- Spain
	Plague -- history -- Africa, Northern
	Plague -- history -- Portugal
	Plague -- history -- Spain

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