Maimonides, On Rules Regarding the Practical Part of the Medical Art. A parallel Arabic–English edition by Gerrit Bos & Y. Tzvi Langermann (Provo, UT: Brigham Young University Press, 2014), pp. xxvi, 123 $+$ pp. 32 (Arabic), $89.95, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-8425-2837-5.
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Gerrit Bos, Maimonides Medical Aphorisms, Treatises 16-21: A parallel Arabic-English edition (Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 2016), pp. xxix, 204, $89.95, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-842-52843-6.
Finally, just over halfway through the book, issues that concern lower-income countries are addressed. After placing the public health of developing countries in historical context, Berridge describes the complex health burden that these countries have today – both communicable diseases, in areas where health coverage and access to health technologies are neglected, and non-communicable disease...
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عنوان ژورنال: Medical History
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0025-7273,2048-8343
DOI: 10.1017/mdh.2015.35