Unani medicine in the making : practices and representations in 21st-century India / Kira Schmidt Stiedenroth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schmidt-Stiedenroth, Kira, author.

Series:

Social studies in Asian medicine.

Social studies in Asian medicine

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine--India.

Medicine.

Medicine, Arab--India.

Medicine, Arab.

Medicine, Greek and Roman.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (285 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2020.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

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 tensions between the understanding of Unani as a system of medicine and its multiple enactments as Islamic medicine, medical science, or alternative medicine. Ethnographic details provide vivid descriptions of the current practices of Unani in India and invite readers to rethink the idea that humoral medicine is incommensurable with modern science. Ultimately, the book also discusses the relationship of Unani with Muslim communities, examining the growing practice of Prophetic Medicine in Urban India and the increasing representation of Unani as Islamic Medicine.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Nov 2020).

Includes bibliographical references (pages [265]-278) and index.

ISBN:

1-003-70879-X

90-485-4443-2

9781003708797

OCLC:

1176194360