Medicine in Practice: European Influences on the Ottoman Medical Habitat
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This article considers the transfer of medical knowledge from Europe to the Ottoman empire and argues that what was significant in such transfer was medical practice rather than textual transfer, that the Ottomans were open to adopting medical knowledge from the non-Islamic world, the deciding factor being not the origin but the successful nature of the treatment, and that if there was a border which medical knowledge did not traverse, it was one created by everyday custom not by any Muslim/Christian divide or rejection of knowledge from outside.
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Medicine in Practice: European Influences on the Ottoman Medical Habitat
In: Turkish Historical ReviewSearch for other papers by Ebru Boyar in
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Google Scholar
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This article considers the transfer of medical knowledge from Europe to the Ottoman empire and argues that what was significant in such transfer was medical practice rather than textual transfer, that the Ottomans were open to adopting medical knowledge from the non-Islamic world, the deciding factor being not the origin but the successful nature of the treatment, and that if there was a border which medical knowledge did not traverse, it was one created by everyday custom not by any Muslim/Christian divide or rejection of knowledge from outside.
| All Time | Past Year | Past 30 Days | |
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| Abstract Views | 1704 | 782 | 89 |
| Full Text Views | 1626 | 21 | 0 |
| PDF Views & Downloads | 2125 | 63 | 0 |