Medicine in Iran [electronic resource] : Profession, Practice and Politics, 1800-1925 /
Ebrahimnejad, H.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Introduction; 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; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Author Index; Subject Index
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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.
History, Modern.
Ethnology—Middle East .
Middle East—History.
Social history.
History.
Medicine—History.
Modern History.
Middle Eastern Culture.
History of the Middle East.
Social History.
History of Science.
History of Medicine.