Rethinking the history of medicine in Asia: Hakim Mohammed Said and the Society for the Promotion of Eastern Medicine

J Asian Stud. 2008 Nov;67(4):1165-86. doi: 10.1017/s0021911808001745.

Abstract

In 1963 Hakim Mohammed Said took a Pakistani delegation from the Society for the Promotion of Eastern Medicine on a monthlong trip to China to meet with and learn from practitioners of Traditional Chinese Medicine. This essay focuses on Said's interpretation of the history of medicine in Asia, which was inspired by his trip and informed by a broad, global understanding of how Unani medicine developed from the eighth century to the present. Said's advocacy of Eastern Medicine provides a way to think about the history of medicine and medical revitalization that is not limited by colonial, postcolonial, or nationalist assumptions and priorities.

Publication types

  • Biography
  • Historical Article

MeSH terms

  • China
  • Colonialism / classification
  • Colonialism / history
  • Historiography
  • History of Medicine*
  • History, 20th Century*
  • History, Ancient
  • History, Medieval
  • Medicine, Chinese Traditional / history*
  • Medicine, Chinese Traditional / methods
  • Medicine, Chinese Traditional / trends
  • Medicine, Unani* / history
  • Pakistan

Personal name as subject

  • Hakim Mohammed Said