Ottoman medicine : healing and medical institutions, 1500-1700 / Miri Shefer Mossensohn
By: Shefer-Mossensohn, Miri.
SUNY Press ; University Presses Marketing [distributor], 2010Description: 277 p. cm.ISBN: 9781438425306 (pbk.).Subject(s): Medicine -- Turkey -- History | Medical care -- Turkey -- HistoryGenre/Form: Print books.Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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On Shelf | RA537 .M67 2009 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU0000000008926 |
Originally published: 2009
Introduction: The marriage of medicine and society -- Medical pluralism, prevention and cure -- "In health and in sickness" : the integrative body -- "Feed the hungry, visit the sick and set those who suffer free" : medical benevolence and social order -- Spaces of disease, disease in space -- Conclusion: Ottoman medicine : Ottoman? Successful? -- Appendix: List of hospitals discussed in the book