Description: THE AFRICAN BACKOROUND TO MEDICAL SCIENCE Essays on African History, Selonce and Clvillzatlons by Charles S. Finch KARNAK CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY EGYPTOLOGY/AFRICAN STUDIES The essays that make up this book attempt to trace the history of anclent Egypt both Irom Its encounter with 18th century Europe and the distortions which derived from it, and a comprehensive reassessment of ancient Egyptian history itself. The author surveys the background to the controversial origins of ancient Egypllan civillzations to an African people and goes on to document and confirm the genetic connections between the latter two. These are based upon religious, cultural and Iinguistlc comparisons and are grounded in an historiography which Is fuelled by a parallelled Afrocentric perspective, i.e., one which rejects the phenomenon of slavery and the status of Africans the modern world to outweigh the array objectively defined evidences which sustain genetic and other connections. The author looks at the question of race and prehistory and contextualises human development from its beginnings In Africa and Its spread around the globe; a reappraisal of the world's first multi-genius, Imhotep; a look at the black Queens of Ethiopia, and a forcefully argued case of the origins of Christianity in ancient Egyptian religion: the most convincing area of the author's arguments rest on the medical record of the Egyptians who documented numerous ailments and their diagnoses and cures. The author presents two separate essays on this subject, which leave no doubt as to the precedence of medicai science in Africa. "Finch's essays belong to that new revisionist body of work that Is so meflculousty researched, so well documented, so reasonably argued, that it does not have to circulate within the closed circle of the converted but can begin to shock and change the cilmate of thinking in the world at large.' Ivan Van Sertima Associate Professor, Rutgers University author of They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America ISBN 0-907015-63-8 Cover Iustralion: Babatundo Barjoko
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Book Title: The African Background To Medical Science
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Book Series: Journal of African Civilization
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Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Publisher: Karnak House
Original Language: English
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Intended Audience: Adults
Edition: First Edition
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Publication Year: 1990
Type: Anthology
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Author: Charles S. Finch III, M.D.
Features: 1st printing
Genre: Economics, Engineering & Technology, Health, Treatments & Medicine, Historical, History, Life Sciences, Mathematics & Sciences, Spirituality, War & Combat
Topic: Science
Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
