Book BOOK REVIEW: OTTOMAN MEDICINE: HEALING AND MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS, 1500-1700

"Ottoman Medicine: Healing and Medical Institutions, 1500-1700"1 outlines 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

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1. Shefer-Mossensohn M, Ottoman Medicine: Healing and Medical Institutions, 1500-1700. New York: State University of New York Press; 2009 (277 pages).