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Authors : Sherry Sayed GADELRAB
Pages : 67-69
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Publication Date : 2013-04-01
Article Type : Bookreview
Abstract :Abstract This book is an ambitious attempt the history of health and sickness in the vast Ottoman Empire, between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. The book, based on research of primary sources such as archives, manuscripts, travel accounts amongst others, addressed the question of how Ottomans, whether patients or healers coped with disease and/or attempted to stay healthy in the early modern period.Keywords : Ottoman medicine-hospitals- illness- disease- health