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Safavid Medicine: The Hospital That Healed an Empire
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the little-known world of Safavid medicine, focusing on the grand hospital of Isfahan, the Dar al-Shifa, built under Shah Abbas I. They discuss Persian humoral theory, the role of hakims, the famous physician Hakim Muhammad Qasim, and the hospital's endowment from the royal waqf. The conversation touches on the hospital's architecture, its division into men and women's wings, and the integration of Twelver Shiism into medical ethics. They also compare Safavid medical practices to Ottoman and Mughal contemporaries, and consider how European travellers…
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