Innovation in Byzantine Medicine

Innovation in Byzantine Medicine
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AuthorPetros Bouras-Vallianatos
Original titleInnovation in Byzantine Medicine: The Writings of John Zacharias Aktouarios (c.1275-c.1330)
LanguageEnglish
SubjectHistory of medicine, Byzantine history
GenreNon-fiction
PublisherOxford University Press
Publication date
February 5, 2020
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Pages368
AwardThe Prize for Young Historians by International Academy of the History of Science (2021)[1]
ISBN978-0198850687

Innovation in Byzantine Medicine: The Writings of John Zacharias Aktouarios (c.1275-c.1330) is a 2020 monograph by Greek author and academic Petros Bouras-Vallianatos. The book delves into the largely unexplored works of late Byzantine physician John Zacharias Aktouarios, known for his contributions to uroscopy, physiology, and pharmacology. It highlights Aktouarios' original theories, including the introduction of a new urine vial divided into eleven areas and his theory about the connection of each area with a certain part of the human body, and provides insight into the intellectual and social contexts of medical practice in the Byzantine era. Bouras-Vallianatos argues that Aktouarios' medical works were remarkably open to knowledge from outside Byzantium and displayed significant originality. The analysis of Aktouarios's treatises is based on a wide range of manuscripts and sources, shedding new light on Byzantine medical thought and its cultural exchanges with the Latin and Islamic worlds.[2][3][4][5]

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