The development of modern medicine in non-western countries
Subtitle: historical perspectives
By: edited by Hormoz Ebrahimnejad.
Contributors: Ebrahimnejad, Hormoz.
Series: Royal Asiatic Society books series; Royal Asiatic Society books
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Abingdon, Oxon [England]; New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415447423
Subjects: Medicine -- Asia -- History; Medicine, Traditional -- history; History of Medicine; History, 19th Century; History, 20th Century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : for a history of modern medicine in non-western countries / Hormoz Ebrahimnejad; title: Medical experimentation in British India : the case of Dr. Helenus Scott / Mark Harrison; title: The construction of disease transmission in nineteenth-century Egypt / Anne-Marie Moulin; title: The waqf, the state, and medical education in nineteenth-century Iran / Hormoz Ebrahimnejad; title: Waqf endowments and the emergence of modern charitable hospitals in the Ottoman Empire : the case of Zeynep-Kamil Hospital in Istanbul / Feza Günergun & Seref Etker; title: A bounded medical pluralism : Ayurveda and western medicine in colonial and independent Sri Lanka / Margaret Jones; title: "Modern medicine" in French colonial Vietnam : from the importation of a model to its nativisation / Laurence Monnais; title: Making modernity with medicine : mission, state, and community in leprosy control, Ogoja, Nigeria, 1945-1950 / John Manton; title: Cholera, consumer, and citizenship : modernizations of medicine in Japan / Akihito Suzuki & Mika Suzuki.