Ottoman medicine : healing and medical institutions, 1500-1700 / Miri Shefer-Mossensohn.

Albany : SUNY Press, [2009], ©2009.

xvi, 277 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: The marriage of medicine and society -- Medical pluralism, prevention and cure -- "In health and in sickness" : the integrative body -- "Feed the hungry, visit the sick and set those who suffer free" : medical benevolence and social order -- Spaces of disease, disease in space -- Conclusion: Ottoman medicine : Ottoman? Successful? -- Appendix: List of hospitals discussed in the book.