Unani medicine in the making: practices and representations in 21st-century India
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 -- S...
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| Format: | Book/Monograph |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam
Amsterdam University Press
2020
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| Series: | Social studies in Asian medicine
Social Studies in Asian Medicine Ser. |
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| Online Access: | Aggregator, lizenzpflichtig: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=6229603
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| Author Notes: | Kira Schmidt Stiedenroth |
| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| ISBN: | 9789048544431 |