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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ebrahimnejad, Hormoz.

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.

Hospitals--Iran--History--19th century.

Hospitals.

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

Medicine.

Kitābkhānah-ʾi Majlis-i Shūrā-yi Millī (Iran)--Manuscript--505.

Kitābkhānah-ʾi Majlis-i Shūrā-yi Millī (Iran).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 266 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The starting-point for this volume is a previously unstudied nineteenth-century Persian text concerning hospital reform, and of great importance for understanding the history of medical care in nineteenth century Iran. The volume provides surprising new insights into the interrelation of medical practice, public health and politics in Qājār Iran. Rather than showing a straightforward replacement, it reveals that Western medicine was assimilated through dialogue into traditional medical systems. It argues that institutional changes preceded intellectual transitions insofar as the first reforms in the medical system were implemented at an institutional level as part of the development of the Qājār state and with the active involvement of traditional court physicians. Full edited text with translation and commentary. With illustrations.

Contents:

Intro

CONTENTS

List of illustrations

Acknowledgements

System of transliteration

Preface

PART ONE: THE INSTITUTIONAL AND THEORETICAL CHANGE IN TRADITIONAL MEDICINE

Introduction

Chapter One: A cursory review of hospitals

Hospitals in the pre-historic era and antiquity

Islamic period

Organization and administration

Chapter Two: Public health and socio-political changes

The modernization movement in the nineteenth century

Towards the creation of public health

Chapter Three: The manuscript, the author and the hospital

The manuscript and its author

The Marizkh&amp

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neh-ye dowlati (state hospital)

Description of the Marizkh&amp

neh-ye dowlati according to manuscript 505

The hospital and the religious establishment

The charitable hospital and Islamic politics

The hospital and the sick poor

Administration

Chapter Four: Traditional medicine and modernization

The Q&amp

j&amp

r state and the institutionalization of medicine

Laqab, court appointments and the Q&amp

r administration

The re-institutionalisation of traditional medicine

Chapter Five: Towards the epistemology of medical modernization

Glimpses of the epistemological study of medical modernization

The institutional aspect of medical modernization

Conclusion

PART TWO: 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

II. Benefits of the Hospital for the sublime Government

III. On the appointment of the Chief Health Officer for the preservation of the health of civil society and of the army The functionaries of the hospital

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

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

VI. On the grade, qualities and duties of the hospital's doctors The duties of the physicians of the hospital

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

VIII. Qualities and duties of the pharmacists of the hospital

The duties of the pharmacists

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

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

XI. The duties of the Third Mirz&amp

s (or the cashiers)

XII. On the duties of the nurses in the hospital

XIII. On the duties of the guards of the hospital

Persian text

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Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes Persian text and English translation of Manuscript 505 in the Majles Library, Tehran.

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

Contains:

Kitābkhānah-ʾi Majlis-i Shūrā-yi Millī (Iran). Manuscript. 505

ISBN:

1-280-91531-5

9786610915316

90-474-0561-7

1-4294-0833-2

OCLC:

191930939

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789047405610 DOI