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Unani Medicine in the Making : Practices and Representations in 21st-century India /
In Unani Medicine in the Making, Kira Schmidt Stiedenroth examines the contemporary institutions and practices of Graeco-Islamic healing in India. Drawing on interviews with practitioners, clinical observations, and Urdu sources, the book focuses on Unani's multiplicity, scrutinizing apparent t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2020
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| Colección: | Social studies in Asian medicine.
Book collections on Project MUSE. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- A system of medicine?
- Authority, originality, and the limits of standardization
- Beyond humouralism
- The appropriation of modern scientific advances and concepts
- Science and the quest for acceptance and recognition
- Unani medicine and Muslims in India.