: loss and recovery of an Indo-Muslim medical tradition, 1600-1900
/ Seema Alavi.
New York, NY
: Palgrave Macmillan
, 2008.
xiii, 384 p. ;
23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-368) and index.
Indo-Muslim medicine : unani in pre-modern India -- Encounter with the West : the English East India Company -- The practice of medicine : public welfare -- Dispensaries and shifakhaanas in early-nineteenth century India -- Urdu medical texts in the late nineteenth century -- Argumentative hakims : debates in the Oudh Akhbar -- From Jhawain-tola to Takmil-ut-Tibb, Lucknow.