ISBN:
0230554385
,
9780230554382
Language:
English
Pages:
XIII, 384 S.
,
23 cm
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Alavi, Seema, 1961 - Islam and healing
DDC:
610.938
Keywords:
Medicine, Arab History
;
Medicine, Greek and Roman History
;
Medicine History
;
Medicine, Unani history
;
History, Modern 1601-
;
Islam history
;
Religion and Medicine
;
Indien
;
Muslim
;
Medizin
;
Geschichte 1600-1900
;
Yunani
;
Muslim
;
Geschichte 1600-1900
Description / 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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-368) and index
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0828/2008014350-d.html
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