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Hospitals in Iran and India, 1500-1950s / edited by Fabrizio Speziale. - Leiden : BRILL, 2012. - 1 online resource (254 pages) - Iran studies ; v. 7 . - Iran studies ; v. 7. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Hôpitaux et médecins avicenniens en Iran à l'époque safavide; Hospitals in Safavid and Qajar Iran: An Enquiry into Their Number, Growth and Importance; Des particuliers au service du peuple. Le rôle des vaqf dans la fondation d'hôpitaux en Iran au début du XXe siècle; Together and Apart: Catholic Hospitals in Plural Goa; Tradition et réforme du dar al-šifa au Deccan; Healing the People and the Princes: Hospitals,?akims and Doctors in Bhopal; Hamdard, How to Share Pain in a Muslim Way; Glossary; List of Abstracts; Index.

This work presents a significant panorama of studies on the history and role of hospitals in the Indo-Iranian world during the early modern and the modern periods when both traditional Avicennian medicine as well as Western medicine were practiced.

ISBN: 9789004229198 (electronic bk.) 9004229191 (electronic bk.) 9004228292 9789004228290 (hbk. ; alk. paper)

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Nat. Bib. No.: GBB234229 bnb

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Hospitals--History.--Iran
Hospitals--History.--India
Medicine--History.--Iran
Medicine--History.--India
Médecine--Histoire.--Iran
Médecine--Histoire.--Inde
MEDICAL--Hospital Administration & Care.
Hospitals.
Medicine.
Social conditions.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Iran--Social conditions.
India--Social conditions.
Iran--Conditions sociales.
Inde--Conditions sociales.
India.
Iran.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.

LC Class. No.: RA990.I6 / H66 2012

Dewey Class. No.: 362.110954