Ottoman Medicine: Healing and Medical

The social history of medicine in the Ottoman Empire and the historic Middle East is told in rich detail for the first time in English. Accessible and engaging, Ottoman Medicine sheds light on the work and power of medical practitioners in the Ottoman world. The enduring significance and fascinating history of Ottoman medicine emerge through a consideration of its medical ethics, troubled relationship with religion, standards of professionalism, bureaucratization and health systems management, and the extent of state control. Of interest to healthcare providers, healers, and patients, this book helps us better understand and appreciate the medical practices of non-Western societies. Book jacket.

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

List of Illustrations	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Note on Transliteration	p. xv
Introduction: The Marriage of Medicine and Society	p. 1
The (In)Visible Middle Eastern Ill in the Scholarship	p. 3
The Aims and Scope of the Book	p. 11
Medical Pluralism, Prevention and Cure	p. 21
Ottoman Medical Etiologies	p. 22
Therapeutics: The Clinical Reality	p. 29
ôAn apple a day keeps the doctor awayö: Medical Dietary	p. 30
Ginger and Viper Flesh: The Ordinary and the Bizarre in Middle Eastern Pharmacology	p. 34
Surgery?	p. 45
ôIn health and in sicknessö: The Integrative Body	p. 63
The Senses and the Sound of Music	p. 69
Hygiene and Hydrotherapy: The Power of Water	p. 77
Religion and Medicine, Religion as Medicine: A Placebo Effect?	p. 86
What Is Health, Then? What Is Illness?	p. 93
ôFeed the hungry, visit the sick and set those who suffer freeö: Medical Benevolence and Social Order	p. 101
The Imperative of Health and Medical Care in a Muslim Context: A Religious Duty and a Philanthropic Act	p. 106
Formal Medical Aid and the Donors	p. 110
The Medically Disabled as Needy and Entitled	p. 117
The Non-Poor Foreigner as Entitled to Medical Help	p. 121
Religious Affiliation and Entitlement	p. 125
Male and Female in Medical Neediness	p. 128
The Age of Entitlement	p. 132
Illness as a pre-condition for defining entitlement	p. 134
An Instrument for Social Control: The Other Side of Charity	p. 137
Spaces of Disease, Disease in Space	p. 145
Ottoman Medical Institutions as Urban Institutions	p. 147
Ottoman Medical Institutions within the Urban Landscape	p. 153
Urban Medical Institutions, Environment and Gardens	p. 154
Walls as Barriers and as Connectors: Degrees of Isolation	p. 166
The Marriage of Etiology and Space	p. 170
Conclusion: Ottoman Medicine-Ottoman? Successful?	p. 181
What Is Ottoman in Ottoman Medicine?	p. 181
Ottoman Turkish: From Vernacular to Literary and Scientific Usage	p. 185
Hospitals as Ottoman Institution	p. 187
ôThe sick are cured within three daysö	p. 191
Appendix: List of Hospitals Discussed in the Book	p. 197
Notes	p. 199
Bibliography	p. 241
Index	p. 271
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