Islam and healing : loss and recovery of an Indo-Muslim medical tradition 1600-1900
by Seema Alavi.
- Ranikhet : Permanent Black, 2007.
- 384 p.
Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Indo-Muslim Medicine : Unani in Pre-Modern India Chapter 2. Encounter with the West : the English East India Company Chapter 3. The Practice of Medicine : Public Welfare Chapter 4. Dispensaries and Shifakhaanas in Early-Nineteenth Century India Chapter 5. Urdu Medical Texts in the Late Nineteenth Century Chapter 6. Argumentative Hakims : Debates in the Oudh Akhbar Chapter 7. From Jhawain-Tola to Takmil-ut-Tibb, Lucknow Conclusion Glossary Bibliography Index