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Film, Video Competing Medical Cultures or Close Collaborators? Islamic Medicine and Biomedicine in South Asia and the Middle East

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Title

  • Competing Medical Cultures or Close Collaborators? Islamic Medicine and Biomedicine in South Asia and the Middle East

Summary

  • In this lecture, Kelly Pemberton discusses ways in which the relationship between various streams of knowledge and praxis surrounding Islamic tibb (medicine) in contemporary South Asia and the Middle East may be articulated. Drawing upon developments within Islamic Medicine during the last 30 years, she suggests a framework for investigating ongoing collaborations between biomedical practitioners and proponents of tibb, focusing on three manifestations of the latter -- Galeno-Islamic therapies, South Asian Unani medicine, and Traditional Arabic Medicine (TAM) -- as they are currently practiced in India, Pakistan, Turkey and Egypt. In particular, she suggests how, despite the incorporation of organizational, institutional, and methodological models derived - at least in part - from Western biomedicine, Islamic tibb, understood in its broadest sense as a medical field comprising a network of physicians, curers, herbalists, ruhani tabib (doctors of the spirit), and practitioners of Prophetic medicine, may be seen, at least in part, as a response to medical models that ignore or de-emphasize contemporary religious and ethico-moral issues of importance to Muslim physicians. Looking also at the contemporary revival of Islamic Medicine light of the responses of states, transnational medical networks, and intergovernmental organizations to ongoing medical needs and concerns, Pemberton surmises that it indexes the renewed importance of Islamic models of engagement in civil society.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • John W. Kluge Center (Library of Congress), sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2009-06-17.

Headings

  • -  Education
  • -  Science, Technology
  • -  Technology, Industry

Notes

  • -  Classification: Medicine.
  • -  Classification: Science.
  • -  Kelly Pemberton.
  • -  Recorded on 2009-06-17.
  • -  Researchers.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021688264

Online Format

  • video
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body John W. Kluge Center. Competing Medical Cultures or Close Collaborators? Islamic Medicine and Biomedicine in South Asia and the Middle East. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -06-17, 2009. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021688264/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & John W. Kluge Center, S. B. (2009) Competing Medical Cultures or Close Collaborators? Islamic Medicine and Biomedicine in South Asia and the Middle East. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -06-17. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021688264/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body John W. Kluge Center. Competing Medical Cultures or Close Collaborators? Islamic Medicine and Biomedicine in South Asia and the Middle East. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -06-17, 2009. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021688264/>.