Islam and healing : loss and recovery of an Indo-Muslim medical tradition, 1600-1900 / Seema Alavi.
By: Alavi, Seema.
New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008Description: xiii, 384 p. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 9780230554382 (hardback : alk. paper).Subject(s): Medicine -- India -- History | Medicine, Arab -- India -- History | Medicine, Greek and Roman -- India -- History | Medicine, Unani -- history -- India | History, Modern 1601- -- India | Islam -- history -- India | Religion and Medicine -- IndiaGenre/Form: Print books.DDC classification: 610.938 Online resources: Table of contents only | Publisher description
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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Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-368) and index.
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.