development of modern medicine in non-western countries
Other Title Information
: historical perspectives
First Statement of Responsibility
/ edited by Hormoz Ebrahimnejad.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
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New York :
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Routledge,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2009.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xiv, 240 p. :
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ill. ;
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24 cm.
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Royal Asiatic Society books/ History of medicine/ Asian Studies
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [204]-227) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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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 Gunergun & 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.