[The diseases of the soul in medieval arabic texts an encounter between philosophy and medicine].
In the medical texts written in Arabic between the 9(th) and the 11(th) centuries, the diseases of the soul played an important part in the physicians' reflection on the nature of the soul and its relationship to the body. In the 9(th) and the beginning of the 10(th) century, this medical anthropology was shaped by a tradition that was both Platonic and Galenic. But in the 10(th), the influence of Aristotle became most prominent in Arabic philosophy, and as a result the main lines of this medical anthropology were questioned, as was the role of medical knowledge and its relation to natural philosophy.
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