Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-lnqnp Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-18T13:45:49.099Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Refiguring Unani Tibb: Plural Healing in Late Colonial India. By Guy Attewell. pp. xvi, 316. Hyderabad (A.P.), Orient Longman, 2007.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 July 2008

Francis Robinson
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Image of the first page of this content. For PDF version, please use the ‘Save PDF’ preceeding this image.'
Type
Book Review
Information
Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 18 , Issue 3 , July 2008 , pp. 384 - 385
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 2008

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

1 See for instance: Liebeskind, Claudia, ‘Arguing Science: Unani Tibb, Hakims and Biomedicine in India, 1900–50’ in Ernst, Waltraud, ed., Plural Medicine, Tradition and Modernity, 1800–2000 (London, 2002), pp. 58–75Google Scholar; Alavi, Seema, ‘Unani Medicine in the Nineteenth-Century Public Sphere: Urdu Texts and the Oudh Akhbar’, The Indian Economic and Social History Review, 42, 1, 2005, pp. 99–129CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Quaiser, Neshat, ‘Politics, Culture and Colonialism: Unani's Debate with Doctory’ in Pati, Biswamoy and Harrison, Mark eds., Health, Medicine and Empire: Perspectives on Colonial India (New Delhi, 2001), pp. 317–55Google Scholar; Metcalf, Barbara, ‘National Muslims in British India: The Case of Hakim Ajmal Khan’, Modern Asian Studies, 19, 1, 1985, pp. 1–28CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

2 It should be noted, however, that it has been closely followed by the following: Alavi, Seema, Islam and Healing: The Loss and Recovery of Indo-Muslim Medicine: A History and its Legacy, 1650–1900 (New Delhi, 2007)Google Scholar.