Health, Medicine and Encounter of Cultures in India - Alam, Mumtaz
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Before Western medical systems became prominent, Ayurveda and Unani had evolved into specialized indigenous medicinal systems in India. Health, Medicine and the Encounter of Cultures in India examines the social, cultural, and linguistic facets of medicine that influenced these indigenous systems. Exploring medical literature and other texts in Sanskrit, Arabic and Persian from the eleventh to the nineteenth centuries, this work traces the interactions and changes in the components and practice of medicine.

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Before Western medical systems became prominent, Ayurveda and Unani had evolved into specialized indigenous medicinal systems in India. Health, Medicine and the Encounter of Cultures in India examines the social, cultural, and linguistic facets of medicine that influenced these indigenous systems. Exploring medical literature and other texts in Sanskrit, Arabic and Persian from the eleventh to the nineteenth centuries, this work traces the interactions and changes in the components and practice of medicine.
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Autorenporträt
Mumtaz Alam is Assistant Professor of History and Associate Dean Learning and Teaching, College of Humanities and Education at Fiji National University. He earlier served as Head of the School of Arts and Humanities (2021), of the Department of History (2014-17) and of the Department of Social Science (2017-20). He is a member of the American Historical Association, the Indian History Congress and the Pacific History Association. He has published numerous research papers in peer-reviewed journals and actively conducts research and edits journals. In 2011 he was awarded the Dr I.G. Khan Memorial Prize for Best Paper in the Science and Technology section at the Indian History Congress.