Islam, Medicine, and Practitioners in Northern Nigeria

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• Hausa (African people)
• History
• ISLAM
• Medicine
• Medicine, Arab
• Medicine, Arabic
• Nigeria
• Religion and Medicine
• TRADITIONAL medicine

Notes:

• The author of this text argues that, although the Islamic and the pre-Islamic Hausa medical systems have much in common, their theoretical and conceptual frameworks are different. They operate from different understandings of the causes of disease and misfortune, and of the appropriate methods to be employed to restore health or alleviate suffering. The book also discusses another significant difference between the Islamic and non-Islamic Hausa medical systems: the mode of preserving and communicating medical knowledge. The early history of Islamic medicine is also described, and its theories, concepts and historical developments are explored.

Health and healing in the Qur'an

Allopathy Goes Native: Traditional Versus Modern Medicine in Iran

Tags:

• Anthropological aspects
• Iran
• Medicine, Traditional
• Public health
• Social medicine
• TRADITIONAL medicine

Notes:

• Allopathy is often described as “western” medicine, the antithesis of homeopathy. Allopathy Goes Native is an ethnographic investigation of how allopathic knowledge, theories and practice guidelines come to be understood and applied by native practitioners in a non-western context. Based on research among allopathic doctors in Iran, Loeffler describes how the system of allopathic medicine has adapted to indigenous explanations of health and disease and to the economic, social and religio-political realities framing contemporary Iranian life and culture. This approach simultaneously problematizes the view of allopathic medicine as a “western” entity exerting a hegemonic influence over non-western cultures and provides a rare glimpse of the complexities of life in modern Iran denied most western scholars. It is an essential supplement to the current anthropological literature on Iran.

Health and Medicine in the Islamic Tradition: Change And Identity

Tags:

• Health
• Medicine
• Religious aspects

Notes:

• This is a pioneering attempt to portray the relationship of Islam as a system of faith and as a tradition to human health and health care. The author explores Wellness and Illness in the Islamic World view, the Religious Valuation of Medicine, The Prophetic Medicine, Medical Care, Medical Ethics and Passages.

Islamic Medicine

Tags:

• Medicine, Arab

Notes:

• This highly readable survey describes the development of Islamic medicine and its influence on Western medical thought. It explains the main features of Islamic medicine: its system of human physiology; its ideas about the nature of disease; its rules for diet and the use of drugs; and its relationship with astrology and the occult.