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Mundo Árabe , Cristianismo , Islamismo , Peste , Religião e Medicina , Mundo Árabe/história , Bizâncio/epidemiologia , Cristianismo/história , Cristianismo/psicologia , História Antiga , História Medieval , Islamismo/história , Islamismo/psicologia , Região do Mediterrâneo/epidemiologia , Peste/históriaRESUMO
The Black Death visited Constantinople eleven times between 1348, when the epidemic surged in the Mediterranean world, and 1466 when our inquiry ends. We know of these visits from the writings of eye-witnesses who describe their experiences in correspondence written at that time, in stories reconstructed retrospectively, or in theological discussions. After having related the story of these eleven epidemic episodes, this article will try to catch, through these sources, the medical perception of the plague by contemporaries, its social consequences and its psychological, spiritual and theological repercussions.
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Desastres/história , Surtos de Doenças/história , Peste/história , Bizâncio , História Medieval , Humanos , Problemas Sociais/históriaRESUMO
In reference to the presence of a list of abortifacients in a Greek manual of therapeutics or Arab origins (the Ephodia), the author reexamines the Oath of Hippocrates and its statement on abortion and abortifacients in the Hippocratic tradition as they were employed in Greek, Roman, Arab, and Byzantine cultures.
