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The Doctors' Dinner Party (Library of Arabic Literature) by Ibn Buṭlān (editor); Philip F. Kennedy (editor); Jeremy Farrell (editor) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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**A witty satire of the medical profession** __The 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.

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Author

Ibn Buṭlān (editor); Philip F. Kennedy (editor); Jeremy Farrell (editor)

Publisher

New York University Press

Published

2023

Language

EN

ISBN

9781479818792

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Language Learning, Literary Fiction, Fiction