Status: Bibliographieeintrag
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| Verfasst von: | Schmidt Stiedenroth, Kira [VerfasserIn]  |
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| Titel: | Unani medicine in the making |
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| Titelzusatz: | practices and representations in 21st-century India |
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| Verf.angabe: | Kira Schmidt Stiedenroth |
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| Verlagsort: | Amsterdam |
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| Verlag: | Amsterdam University Press |
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| Jahr: | 2020 |
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| Umfang: | 1 online resource (287 pages) |
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| Gesamttitel/Reihe: | Social studies in Asian medicine |
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| | Social Studies in Asian Medicine Ser. |
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| Fussnoten: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
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| ISBN: | 978-90-485-4443-1 |
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| Abstract: | Cover -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Multiplicity, Practice Ontology, and Looping Effects -- Unani and Traditional Medicine in South Asia -- The Biomedicalization of Traditional Medicines -- Theory vs. Practice? -- From the Topic to Fieldwork -- Conducting Fieldwork -- Sources and Methods -- 1. A System of Medicine? -- Official Representations of Unani Medicine -- Government Institutions and Official Publications -- The Prescription of Drugs -- The National Formulary of Unani Medicine and the Unani Pharmacopoeia of India -- Unani Practitioners -- Doctors or Hakims? -- The Old Ḵẖandānī Hakim as Embodiment of Unani Knowledge -- The Cult of Eminent Hakims -- The Unani Fraternity -- Textual Sources of Authority -- Systematization and Looping Effects -- The Systematization of (Unani) Medicine: Historical Overview -- Enactments and Loopings -- 2. Authority, Originality, and the Limits of Standardization -- Creation and Transmission of Medical Knowledge -- Becoming a Hakim -- Institutionalized Training and its Shortcomings -- Family Lineages and Secret Knowledge -- Degrees and (Un-)Official Practice -- The Regulation of Practice -- Qualified and Registered Practitioners -- BUMS as Second Choice -- Practicing 'Allopathy' with a Unani Degree -- Defying Standards -- Individualized Treatments and Clinical Falsification -- Pulse Diagnosis and the Limits of Standardization -- Exclusive Knowledge and the Pursuit of Originality -- Standardized Drugs -- Variations of Medicine and Multiplicity -- 3. Beyond Humouralism -- Fundamental Principles of Unani Medicine -- The Concept of Medicine and the Principles of Human Physiology -- 'What is First' -- Diseases -- Treatments and Prevention -- Finding the Root Cause of Disease -- Observation and Questioning -- Pulse Examination. |
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| Schlagwörter: | (g)Indien / (s)Islam / (s)Medizin |
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| | (g)Indien / (s)Yunani |
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| Datenträger: | Online-Ressource |
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| Sprache: | eng |
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| Bibliogr. Hinweis: | Erscheint auch als : Druckausgabe: Schmidt Stiedenroth, Kira, 1985 - : Unani medicine in the making. - Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2020. - 285 Seiten |
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| Sach-SW: | Electronic books |
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| | Medicine, Greek and Roman |
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| | Medicine |
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| | Medicine, Arab ; India |
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| K10plus-PPN: | 1725732394 |
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978-90-485-4443-1
Unani medicine in the making / Schmidt Stiedenroth, Kira [VerfasserIn]; 2020 (Online-Ressource)
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