Hospitals in Iran and India, 1500-1950s

Product Description


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.
This book is copublished with the Institut Français de Recherche en Iran (IFRI) as no. 74 in the
Bibliothéque Iranienne series.


Review


"This volume is the first of its kind and a welcome addition to the scholarship. [...] It provides a platform for a very respected publication, in the form of a Brill volume, to internationally less known scholars who also work on this important field for Islamic and Asian medicines. The volume also facilitates the access of international scholars to articles that otherwise would have been published in different journals (maybe far less accessible)." - Miri Shefer-Mossensohn, in:
Iranian Studies 48:4, 641-643 [DOI: 10.1080/00210862.2015.1044729]


About the Author


Fabrizio Speziale, Ph.D. (2002), holds a CNRS Chair in Iranian studies at the University Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3. He has published extensively on the history of medicine in the Indo-Persianate world including
Soufisme, religion et médecine en Islam indien (Paris, 2010).