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Modern medicine in the Holy Land : pioneering British medical services in late Ottoman Palestine / Yaron Perry, Efraim Lev.

Van Pelt Library R644.P3 P477 2007
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Perry, Yaron.
Contributor:
Lev, Efraim.
Series:
International library of colonial history ; 8.
International library of colonial history ; 8
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Medical care--Palestine--History--19th century.
Medical care.
Hospitals--Palestine--History--19th century.
Hospitals.
Missions, Medical--Palestine--History--19th century.
Missions, Medical.
British--Palestine--History--19th century.
British.
Physicians--Palestine--History--19th century.
Physicians.
History.
Physical Description:
xi, 243 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm.
Place of Publication:
London : Tauris Academic Studies, 2007.
Contents:
Historical Introduction 1
History of the London Jews Society 3
Medical Introduction 8
English Mission Hospitals 27
Early Attempts by Medical Missionaries in Jerusalem 27
First Hospital in Jerusalem 33
New Hospital in Jerusalem 38
Hospital in Safed 43
Pharmacological and Medical Aspects 50
The British Physicians 59
Edward Macgowan 61
Thomas J. Chaplin 68
Percy Charles Edward d'Erf Wheeler 81
Ernest William Gurney Masterman 86
Walter Henry Anderson 102
Impact 109
Protestant Medical Activity, Institutions and Politics 109
Deaconesses of Kaiserswerth's Hospital 112
Jesus-Hilfe Leper's Hospital 114
Marienstift Children's Hospital 117
Order of St. John's Ophthalmic Hospital 121
German Templars' Hospital in Jaffa 125
Scottish Hospital (EMMS) in Nazareth 129
Scottish Hospital in Tiberias 132
Catholic Medical Activity, Institutions and Politics 136
French Hospital of Saint Louis 137
Order of St. John of God's Hospital (Tantur) 139
Austrian Hospital in Nazareth 140
Orthodox Medical Activity, Institutions and Politics 141
Russian Pilgrims' Hospital 143
Muslims Medical Activity 144
Turkish Municipal Hospital 144
Jewish Medical Activity, Institutions and Politics 145
The First Jewish Hospital 146
The Montefiore's Hospital 150
Meir Rothschild's Hospital 152
Bikkur Holim Hospital 154
Shaare Zedek Hospital 157
Misgav Ladach Hospital 159
English Hospitals' List of Household Furniture 169
English Hospitals' Medical Journal 177
English Nursing Staff 184.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [221]-240) and index.
ISBN:
9781845114893
1845114892
OCLC:
123114548

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