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This is the first work in English devoted to medicine in the Ottoman world.

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Author:   Miri Shefer-Mossensohn
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.567kg
ISBN:  

9781438425290

ISBN 10:   1438425295
Pages:   293
Publication Date:   10 December 2009
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Preface Note on Transliteration Introduction: The Marriage of Medicine and Society The (In)Visible Middle Eastern Ill in the Scholarship The Aims and Scope of the Book 1. Medical Pluralism, Prevention and Cure Ottoman Medical Etiologies Therapeutics: The Clinical Reality ""An apple a day keeps the doctor away"": Medical Dietary Ginger and Viper Flesh: The Ordinary and the Bizarre in Middle Eastern Pharmacology Surgery? 2. ""In health and in sickness"": The Integrative Body The Senses and the Sound of Music Hygiene and Hydrotherapy: The Power of Water Religion and Medicine, Religion as Medicine: A Placebo Effect? What Is Health, Then? What Is Illness? 3. ""Feed the hungry, visit the sick and set those who suffer free"": Medical Benevolence and Social Order The Imperative of Health and Medical Care in a Muslim Context: A Religious Duty and a Philanthropic Act Formal Medical Aid and the Donors The Medically Disabled as Needy and Entitled The Non-Poor Foreigner as Entitled to Medical Help Religious Affiliation and Entitlement Male and Female in Medical Neediness The Age of Entitlement Illness as a pre-condition for defi ning entitlement An Instrument for Social Control: The Other Side of Charity 4. Spaces of Disease, Disease in Space Ottoman Medical Institutions as Urban Institutions Ottoman Medical Institutions within the Urban Landscape Urban Medical Institutions, Environment and Gardens Walls as Barriers and as Connectors: Degrees of Isolation The Marriage of Etiology and Space Conclusion: Ottoman Medicine-Ottoman? Successful? What Is Ottoman in Ottoman Medicine? Ottoman Turkish: From Vernacular to Literary and Scientific Usage Hospitals as Ottoman Institution ""The sick are cured within three days"" Appendix: List of Hospitals Discussed in the Book Notes Bibliography Index

Reviews

Ottoman Medicine leaves its readers excited about where Shefer-Mossensohn might take her future research-on Ottoman medicine as well as on medical theory, practice, and rhetoric writ large. - Journal of the American Oriental Society ...the book's main strengths lie in the substantial and varied evidence, the rich anecdotes, and the comparisons to Christian European medical institutions ... Shefer-Mossensohn demonstrates the paradoxes, plurality, and diversity of Ottoman medicine. As such, she offers English-speaking audiences a glance into a medical world that was dynamic and far-reaching. - Review of Middle East Studies ...[Shefer-Mossensohn] successfully manages to bring to life a broad picture of the existence of people in the early modern period of the Ottoman Empire, dealing mainly with health issues such as affliction, misery and disease, their treatment and death ... This document beautifully portrays Ottoman medicine and healthcare by weaving together cultural, social, and political dimensions into a coherent picture of that complex system ... Scholars and students of history, social history and history of medicine will benefit enormously from reading it. - Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society ...provides thorough and unique access to an understudied aspect of early modern Middle Eastern social history. Works covering the Ottoman period are of special interest due to the enormous importance of this particular state in the affairs of the early modern Middle East, and analyses of social history in this period are both important and badly needed. Shefer-Mossensohn's book steps into this role with an impressive command of relevant sources and keen analytical insight, making this work a fascinating contribution to the study of the early modern Middle Eastern and Muslim world. - Practical Matters

"""Ottoman Medicine leaves its readers excited about where Shefer-Mossensohn might take her future research-on Ottoman medicine as well as on medical theory, practice, and rhetoric writ large."" - Journal of the American Oriental Society ""...the book's main strengths lie in the substantial and varied evidence, the rich anecdotes, and the comparisons to Christian European medical institutions ... Shefer-Mossensohn demonstrates the paradoxes, plurality, and diversity of Ottoman medicine. As such, she offers English-speaking audiences a glance into a medical world that was dynamic and far-reaching."" - Review of Middle East Studies ""...[Shefer-Mossensohn] successfully manages to bring to life a broad picture of the existence of people in the early modern period of the Ottoman Empire, dealing mainly with health issues such as affliction, misery and disease, their treatment and death ... This document beautifully portrays Ottoman medicine and healthcare by weaving together cultural, social, and political dimensions into a coherent picture of that complex system ... Scholars and students of history, social history and history of medicine will benefit enormously from reading it."" - Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society ""...provides thorough and unique access to an understudied aspect of early modern Middle Eastern social history. Works covering the Ottoman period are of special interest due to the enormous importance of this particular state in the affairs of the early modern Middle East, and analyses of social history in this period are both important and badly needed. Shefer-Mossensohn's book steps into this role with an impressive command of relevant sources and keen analytical insight, making this work a fascinating contribution to the study of the early modern Middle Eastern and Muslim world."" - Practical Matters"

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Miri Shefer-Mossensohn is Lecturer in Middle Eastern History at Tel Aviv University.

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