The development of modern medicine in non-western countries : historical perspectives / edited by Hormoz Ebrahimnejad.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ebrahimnejad, Hormoz.

Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

Series:

Royal Asiatic Society books

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine--Asia--History.

Medicine.

Medicine, Traditional--history.

History of Medicine.

History, 19th Century.

History, 20th Century.

History.

Asia.

Medical Subjects:

Medicine, Traditional--history.

History of Medicine.

History, 19th Century.

History, 20th Century.

Physical Description:

xiv, 240 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2009.

Summary:

Royalasiatic Society Books

The history of medicine in non-European countries has often been characterised by the study of their native 'traditional' medicine, such as (Galenico-)Islamic medicine, and Ayurvedic or Chinese medicine. Modern medicine in these countries, on the other hand, has usually been viewed as a Western corpus of knowledge and institution, juxtaposing or replacing the native medicine but without any organic relation with the local context.

By discarding categories like Islamic, Indian, or Chinese medicine as the myths invented by modern (Western) historiography in the aftermath of the colonial and post-colonial periods, the book proposes to bridge the gap between Western and 'non-Western' medicines, by opening a new perspective in medical historiography in which 'modern medicine' becomes an integral part of the history of medicine in non-European countries.

Through essays and case studies of medical modernisation, this volume particularly calls into question the categorisation of 'Western' and 'non-Western' medicine and challenges the idea that modern medicine could only be developed in its Western birthplace and then imported to and practised as such to the rest of the world. Against the concept of a 'project' of modernisation at the heart of the history of modern medicine in non-Western countries, the chapters of this book describe the 'processes' of medical development by highlighting the active involvement of local elements. The book's emphasis is thus on the 'modernisation' or 'construction' of modern medicine rather that on the diffusion of 'modern medicine' as an ontological entity beyond the West.

Hormoz Ebrahimnejad is the Wellcome Trust Lecturer in history at the School of Humanities, University of Southampton. His current research interests in the history of medicine cover issues such as impacts of institutions on scientific developments, the emergence of the medical profession and hospital institutions and their relation to medical knowledge in both medieval and modern periods. His publications include Medicine, Public Health and the Qajar State: Patterns of Medical Modernization in Nineteenth-Century. Iran.

Contents:

Introduction : for a history of modern medicine in non-western countries / Hormoz Ebrahimnejad

Medical experimentation in British India : the case of Dr. Helenus Scott / Mark Harrison

The construction of disease transmission in nineteenth-century Egypt / Anne-Marie Moulin

The waqf, the state, and medical education in nineteenth-century Iran / Hormoz Ebrahimnejad

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

A bounded medical pluralism : Ayurveda and western medicine in colonial and independent Sri Lanka / Margaret Jones

"Modern medicine" in French colonial Vietnam : from the importation of a model to its nativisation / Laurence Monnais

Making modernity with medicine : mission, state, and community in leprosy control, Ogoja, Nigeria, 1945-50 / John Manton

Cholera, consumer, and citizenship : modernizations of medicine in Japan / Akihito Suzuki and Mika Suzuki.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [204]-227) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9780415447423

0415447429

OCLC:

166383163