The Public Curates: Dr. Nurjehan Akbarali on the Canon of Medicine
For family physician and Museum volunteer Dr. Nurjehan Akbarali, The Canon of Medicine (Qanun [Fi’l-Tibb] of Ibn Sina) is a touchstone that takes her back to her days as a medical student. The five-volume encyclopedia set the standard for Muslims and Europeans in the medical field for more than 500 years. As Dr. Akbarali notes in her video for the #MuseumWithoutWalls, the book’s brilliant author, Ibn Sina, achieved significant advancements in his study of contagions and transmission, and laid the foundation for the quarantine measures that we are living through today.