TY - BOOK ID - 85646797 TI - Unani medicine in the making : practices and representations in 21st-century India PY - 2020 SN - 9048544432 9463724214 PB - Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Medicine KW - Medicine, Arab KW - Medicine, Greek and Roman. KW - Health Workforce KW - Greek medicine KW - Medicine, Roman KW - Medicine, Unani KW - Roman medicine KW - Tibb (Medicine) KW - Unani medicine KW - Unani-Tibb (Medicine) KW - Medicine, Ancient KW - Unani medicine, ethnography, Asian medicine, practice ontology, Islamic medicine. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85646797 AB - In Unani Medicine in the Making, Kira Schmidt Stiedenroth examines the contemporary institutions and practices of Graeco-Islamic healing in India. Drawing on interviews with practitioners, clinical observations, and Urdu sources, the book focuses on Unani's multiplicity, scrutinizing apparent tensions between the understanding of Unani as a system of medicine and its multiple enactments as Islamic medicine, medical science, or alternative medicine. Ethnographic details provide vivid descriptions of the current practices of Unani in India and invite readers to rethink the idea that humoral medicine is incommensurable with modern science. Ultimately, the book also discusses the relationship of Unani with Muslim communities, examining the growing practice of Prophetic Medicine in Urban India and the increasing representation of Unani as Islamic Medicine. ER -