Islam and healing : loss and recovery of an Indo-Muslim medical tradition, 1600-1900 /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Seema Alavi
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Subjects:
Medicine, Arab > India > History.
Medicine, Greek and Roman > India > History.
Medicine > India > History.
Medicine, Unani > history > India.
History, Modern 1601- > India.
Islam > history > India.
Religion and Medicine > India.
Online Access:http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0828/2008014350-d.html
Table of Contents:
  • Indo-Muslim medicine : Unani in pre-modern India
  • Encounter with the West : the English East India Company
  • The practice of medicine : public welfare
  • Dispensaries and shifakhaanas in early-nineteenth-century India
  • Urdu medical texts in the late nineteenth century
  • Argumentative hakims : debates in the Oudh Akhbar
  • From Jhawain-tola to Takmil-ut-Tibb, Lucknow.

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