A fact from Adab al-Tabib appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 24 September 2012 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that the author of Adab al-Tabib, called the "crowning achievement" in early Islamic medical ethics, may actually have been a Christian?
Yes, according to 20th-21st century ears...otherwise the label "practical ethics" is anachronistic. If anything it should be translated as "bedside manners" or simply "manners" (as in etiquette) Rustumpasha (talk) 21:33, 22 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Well, we're translating it today, so it's not really necessary for us to worry about anachronism; using Modern English at all would be an anachronism in some sense. Nevertheless, I got the "practical ethics" translation from a scholarly source; I have no objection to changing that if there's a source saying that "manners" would be a better (or even a decent) one. Writ Keeper⚇♔ 21:38, 22 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
