インドのイスラームと医療１７－１９世紀 Islam and Healing : Loss and Recovery of an Indo-Muslim Medical Tradition, 1600-1900

Alavi, Seema

Palgrave Macmillan（2008/10発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 384 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780230554382
• DDC分類 610.938

基本説明

Demonstrates how; an in-house struggle for hegemony can be as potent as external power in defining medical, social and national modernity.

Full Description

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.

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