title: Medical knowledge in Hebrew: manuscripts and early printed books.
abstract: This article presents a short survey of the Hebrew textual production on medical literature during the Middle Ages in the West. It explores diverse trends in the writing and diffusion of medical texts from the creation of the Hebrew medical corpus, as well as the fortuna that the transmission of this genre had after the introduction of printing.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Estudios Semíticos, Facultad de Filosofía y letras, Universidad de Granada, Campus Universitario de Cartuja s/n, Granada 18071, Spain.
authors.forename: Carmen
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Caballero-Navas
mesh_terms: D049691:History, Medieval; D007585:Jews / Q000266:history*; D007802:Language; D008374:Manuscripts, Medical as Topic / Q000266:history*; D011327:Printing / Q000266:history*; D019366:Western World / Q000266:history