Medicine in Iran - Profession, Practice and Politics, 1800-1925

Zusatztext to come Informationen zum Autor Hormoz Ebrahimnejad is Lecturer in History at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Southampton, UK. He has specialized in the history of Qâjâr and his first book was published on power and succession in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Iran. Since 1996, he has focused on the history of medicine in Iran on which he has widely published, including The Development of Modern Medicine in Non-Western Countries (2009) that he has edited. Klappentext This book traces how medicine in modern Iran was both theoretically and institutionally transformed in the 19th and 20th centuries. It explores the process by which local physicians! in a non-colonial context! assimilated the emerging "modern medicine" and the institutional devices that accommodated this transition. Zusammenfassung This book traces how medicine in modern Iran was both theoretically and institutionally transformed in the 19th and 20th centuries. It explores the process by which local physicians! in a non-colonial context! assimilated the emerging "modern medicine" and the institutional devices that accommodated this transition. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The State of Medical Theory and Practice in Nineteenth-Century Iran 2. The Physicians and their Encounter with Western Medicine 3. The Reform Movement and Medical Institutionalization 4. Medical Transition under the Constitution

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1. The State of Medical Theory and Practice in Nineteenth-Century Iran 2. The Physicians and their Encounter with Western Medicine 3. The Reform Movement and Medical Institutionalization 4. Medical Transition under the Constitution

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Détails du produit

• Auteurs: H Ebrahimnejad, H. Ebrahimnejad, Hormoz (University of Southampton Ebrahimnejad
• Edition: Palgrave UK
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 23.12.2015
• EAN: 9781349343805
• ISBN: 978-1-349-34380-5
• Pages: 282
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Histoire > Général, dictionnaires; Sciences naturelles, médecine, informatique, technique > Médecine > Général; B, Culture, Cultural Studies, Social History, Middle East, History of Medicine, History of Science, Social and cultural history, Asian History, Palgrave History Collection, Modern History, History of the Middle East, Middle East—History, Ethnology—Middle East, Middle Eastern Culture, Medicine—History, Science—History, Iran;reform;Western Medicine