Medicine, Public Health and the Q J R State: Patterns of Medical Modernization in Nineteenth-Century Iran

Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-90-04-13911-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 4, 274 Seiten, Format (B × H): 167 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 653 g

Reihe: Sir Henry Wellcome Asian Series

The starting-point for this volume is a previously unstudied nineteenth-century Persian text concerning hospital reform, and of great importance for understanding the history of medical care in nineteenth century Iran. The volume provides surprising new insights into the interrelation of medical practice, public health and politics in Qajar Iran.
Rather than showing a straightforward replacement, it reveals that Western medicine was assimilated through dialogue into traditional medical systems. It argues that institutional changes preceded intellectual transitions insofar as the first reforms in the medical system were implemented at an institutional level as part of the development of the Qajar state and with the active involvement of traditional court physicians.
Full edited text with translation and commentary. With illustrations.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ebrahimnejad, Hormoz

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Gesundheitssystem, Gesundheitswesen
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin

Über Autor(innen)

Hormoz Ebrahimnejad, Ph.D. (1995) in History, University of Sorbonne Paris III, is Research Fellow at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, London. He has published various articles in the history of medicine in Iran and a book on power and succession in Iran in the eighteenth and nineteenth century (L'Harmattan, 1999).