Ottoman Medicine: Healing and Medical Institutions, 1500-1700

Contents......Page 9
Illustrations......Page 11
Preface......Page 13
Note on Transliteration......Page 17
INTRODUCTION: The Marriage of Medicine and Society......Page 19
The (In)Visible Middle Eastern Ill in the Scholarship......Page 21
The Aims and Scope of the Book......Page 29
1. Medical Pluralism,Prevention, and Cure......Page 39
Ottoman Medical Etiologies......Page 40
Therapeutics: The Clinical Reality......Page 47
“An apple a day keeps the doctor away”: Medical Dietary......Page 48
Ginger and Viper Flesh: The Ordinary and the Bizarre in Middle Eastern Pharmacology......Page 52
Surgery?......Page 63
2. “In health and in sickness”:The Integrative Body......Page 81
The Senses and the Sound of Music......Page 87
Hygiene and Hydrotherapy: The Power of Water......Page 95
Religion and Medicine, Religion as Medicine:A Placebo Effect?......Page 104
What Is Health Then? What Is Illness?......Page 111
3. “Feed the hungry, visit the sick, and set those who suffer free”: Medical Benevolence and Social Order......Page 119
The Imperative of Health and Medical Carein a Muslim Context: A Religious Duty and a Philanthropic Act......Page 124
Formal Medical Aid and the Donors......Page 128
The Medically Disabled as Needy and Entitled......Page 135
The Nonpoor Foreigner as Entitled to Medical Help......Page 139
Religious Affiliation and Entitlement......Page 143
Male and Female in Medical Neediness......Page 146
The Age of Entitlement......Page 150
Illness as a Precondition for Defi ning Entitlement......Page 152
An Instrument for Social Control:The Other Side of Charity......Page 155
4. Spaces of Disease, Disease in Space......Page 163
Ottoman Medical Institutions as Urban Institutions......Page 165
Ottoman Medical Institutions within the Urban Landscape......Page 171
Urban Medical Institutions, Environment, and Gardens......Page 172
Walls as Barriers and as Connectors: Degrees of Isolation......Page 184
The Marriage of Etiology and Space......Page 188
What Is Ottoman in Ottoman Medicine?......Page 199
Ottoman Turkish: From Vernacular to Literary and Scientifi c Usage......Page 203
Hospitals as an Ottoman Institution......Page 205
“The sick are cured within three days”......Page 209
APPENDIX: List of Hospitals Discussed in the Book......Page 215
Notes......Page 217
Bibliography......Page 259
C......Page 289
H......Page 290
K......Page 291
M......Page 292
S......Page 293
T......Page 294
Z......Page 295