Islam and healing : loss and recovery of an Indo-Muslim medical tradition, 1600-1900
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Islam and healing : loss and recovery of an Indo-Muslim medical tradition, 1600-1900
Palgrave Macmillan, 2008
- : hbk.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-368) and index
Contents of Works
- 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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Traces the Islamic healing tradition's interaction with Indian society and politics as these evolved in tandem from 1600 to 1900, and demonstrates how an in-house struggle for hegemony can be as potent as external power in defining medical, social and national modernity. A pioneering work on the social and medical history of Indian Islam.
Table of Contents
Introduction 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 Conclusion
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