Article ID: CBB000932479

An Ottoman Observer of Central European Surgery in the Middle of the Seventeenth Century (2008)

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Evliya Celebi, a famous Ottoman traveller of the mid seventeenth century, has left us a written account of the places he visited in central Europe. This paper discusses operations that he claimed to have witnessed in Vienna in 1665, the most extraordinary of which was an example of neurosurgery, and it examines what his description tells us about perceptions and images of medicine. His impressions of central European medicine, as viewed by a Muslim from the east, offer a perspective so far little studied.

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Authors & Contributors
Michiel Leezenberg
Yerlioğlu, Akif Ercihan
Natalia Bachour
Malavasi, Stefania
Kafadar, Cemal
Judith I. Haug
Journals
Intellectual History of the Islamicate World
Studies in History of Medicine and Science
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Medical History
Historia Scientiarum: International Journal of the History of Science Society of Japan
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Publishers
Franco Angeli
State University of New York Press
Springer
Routledge
Research Centre for Islamic History, Art and Culture (IRCICA)
Cambridge University Press
Concepts
Medicine
Cross-cultural comparison
Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence
Arab/Islamic world, civilization and culture
Hospitals and clinics
Western world, civilization and culture
People
Ufuḳī, ʿAlī
Paracelsus
Mustafa b. `Abdallah (Haggi Khalifa; Katib Chelebi)
Ganot, Pierre Benjamin Adolphe
Time Periods
17th century
16th century
18th century
Early modern
Republic of Venice (697–1797)
Edo period (Japan, 1603-1868)
Places
Ottoman Empire
Europe
Vienna (Austria)
Japan
Egypt
Padua (Italy)
Institutions
Habsburg, House of
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