Unani Medicine in the Making : : Practices and Representations in 21st-century India / / Kira Schmidt-Stiedenroth.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Schmidt-Stiedenroth, Kira,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Social Studies in Asian Medicine ; 1
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (284 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction --; 1. A System of Medicine? --; 2. Authority, Originality, and the Limits of Standardization --; 3. Beyond Humouralism --; 4. The Appropriation of Modern Scientific Advances and Concepts --; 5. Science and the Quest for Acceptance and Recognition --; 6. Unani Medicine and Muslims in India --; Summary and Reflexions for Future Engagement --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9789048544431; 9783110689556; 9783110696295; 9783110704716; 9783110704518; 9783110704730; 9783110704525
• DOI: 10.1515/9789048544431?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Kira Schmidt-Stiedenroth.

In Unani Medicine in the Making, Kira Schmidt Stiedenroth examines the contemporary institutions and practices of Graeco-Islamic healing in India. Drawing on interviews with practitioners, clinical observations, and Urdu sources, the book focuses on Unani's multiplicity, scrutinizing apparent tensions between the understanding of Unani as a system of medicine and its multiple enactments as Islamic medicine, medical science, or alternative medicine. Ethnographic details provide vivid descriptions of the current practices of Unani in India and invite readers to rethink the idea that humoral medicine is incommensurable with modern science. Ultimately, the book also discusses the relationship of Unani with Muslim communities, examining the growing practice of Prophetic Medicine in Urban India and the increasing representation of Unani as Islamic Medicine.