Hospitals in Iran and India, 1500-1950s

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.

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).

Product details

• Assisted by: Fabrizio Speziale (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.04.2012
• EAN: 9789004228290
• ISBN: 978-90-04-22829-0
• No. of pages: 254
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 239 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 522 g
• Series: Iran Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore