Medicine, public health and the Qajar state : patterns of medical modernization in nineteenth-century Iran / by Hormoz Ebrahimnejad.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ebrahimnejad, Hormoz.

Contributor:

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Sir Henry Wellcome Asian studies ; v. 4.

Sir Henry Wellcome Asian studies ; v. 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public health--Iran--History--19th century.

Public health.

Medicine--Iran--History--19th century.

Medicine.

History.

Iran.

Physical Description:

xiv, 266 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2004.

Summary:

This study contextualizes Konrad of Megenberg's "Book of Natural Things" within the natural philosophy practiced by the Faculty of Arts in the 14th century. Albert the Great and texts of ps.-Albert emerge as significant in this interpretation.

Contents:

Part 1 The Institutional and Theoretical Change in Traditional Medicine

Chapter 1 A cursory review of hospitals 13

Hospitals in the pre-historic era and antiquity 14

Islamic period 19

Organization and administration 26

Chapter 2 Public health and socio-political changes 31

The modernization movement in the nineteenth century 31

Towards the creation of public health 36

Chapter 3 The manuscript, the author and the hospital 50

The manuscript and its author 50

The Marizkhaneh-ye dowlati (state hospital) 58

Description of the Marizkhaneh-ye dowlati according to manuscript 505 75

The hospital and the religious establishment 75

The charitable hospital and Islamic politics 80

The hospital and the sick poor 82

Administration 83

Chapter 4 Traditional medicine and modernization 88

The Qajar state and the institutionalization of medicine 88

Laqab, court appointments and the Qajar administration 90

The re-institutionalisation of traditional medicine 96

Chapter 5 Towards the epistemology of medical modernization 113

Glimpses of the epistemological study of medical modernization 115

The institutional aspect of medical modernization 121

Part 2 On the Benefits, the Maintenance and the Statutes of the State Hospital

I On the benefits of the hospital for soldiers, the homeless and the poor 152

II Benefits of the Hospital for the sublime Government 161

III On the appointment of the Chief Health Officer for the preservation of the health of civil society and of the army 169

The functionaries of the hospital 172

IV On the attributes, ethics and duties of the Chief Health Officer of the army 173

V On the qualities, disposition and duties of the Chief Physician of the army 175

VI On the grade, qualities and duties of the hospital's doctors 180

The duties of the physicians of the hospital 183

VII On the qualifications and the duties of the surgeons of the hospital 184

VIII Qualities and duties of the pharmacists of the hospital 186

The duties of the pharmacists 188

IX On the attributes and duties of the First Secretary who is the [financial] Inspector of the hospital 188

X On the ethics and duties of the Second Secretary, who is the Supervisor of the hospital 190

XI The duties of the Third Mirzas (or the cashiers) 191

XII On the duties of the nurses in the hospital 192

XIII On the duties of the guards of the hospital 193

Persian text 197.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [237]-250) and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9004140158

9004139117

OCLC:

55208318