Islam and healing
Subtitle: loss and recovery of an Indo-Muslim medical tradition, 1600-1900
By: Seema Alavi.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 0780239554382
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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Indo-Muslim medicine : unani in pre-modern India; title: Encounter with the West : the English East India Company; title: The practice of medicine : public welfare; title: Dispensaries and shifakhaanas in early-nineteenth century India; title: Urdu medical texts in the late nineteenth century; title: Argumentative hakims : debates in the Oudh Akhbar; title: From Jhawain-tola to Takmil-ut-Tibb, Lucknow.