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Author Shefer-Mossensohn, Miri, 1971-

Title Ottoman medicine : healing and medical institutions, 1500-1700 / Miri Shefer-Mossensohn
Published Albany : SUNY Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 277 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction: The marriage of medicine and society -- 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 benevolence and social order -- Spaces of disease, disease in space -- Conclusion: Ottoman medicine : Ottoman? Successful? -- Appendix: List of hospitals discussed in the book
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Medicine -- Turkey -- History
Medical care -- Turkey -- History
MEDICAL -- History.
Medical care
Medicine
Turkey
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781441635396
1441635394
1438425368
9781438425368