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Record Nr.

UNINA9910974512303321

Autore

Shefer-Mossensohn Miri <1971->

Titolo

Ottoman medicine : healing and medical institutions, 1500-1700 / / Miri Shefer-Mossensohn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : SUNY Press, c2009

ISBN

9781438425368

1438425368

9781441635396

1441635394

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (299 p.)

Disciplina

610.9561

Soggetti

Medicine - Turkey - History

Medical care - Turkey - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Medical pluralism, prevention and cure -- In health and in sickness : the integrative body -- Feed the hungry, visit the sick and set those who suffer free : medical -- Spaces of disease, disease in space -- Conclusion : Ottoman medicine Ottoman? successful? -- Appendix: list of hospitals discussed in the book -- Endnotes.

Sommario/riassunto

First work in English devoted to medicine in the Ottoman world.