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Author Ebrahimnejad, Hormoz

Title Medicine, Public Health and the Qajar State : Patterns of Medical Modernization in 19thcentury Iran
Published Leiden : Brill Academic Publishers, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (282 pages)
Contents ""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 Marizkhāneh-ye dowlati (state hospital)""; ""Description of the Marizkhāneh-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 Qājār state and the institutionalization of medicine""; ""Laqab, court appointments and the Qājār 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""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction""; ""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 Mirzās (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""; ""Bibliography""; ""Glossary""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""
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Subject Kitābkhānah-ʼi Majlis-i Shūrā-yi Millī (Iran). Manuscript. 505.
Public health -- Iran -- History -- 19th century
Hospitals -- Iran -- History -- 19th century
Medicine -- Iran -- History -- 19th century
Hospitals
Medicine
Public health
Iran
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789004139114
9004139117