The development of modern medicine in non-western countries : historical perspectives /
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| Imprint: | London ; New York : Routledge, 2009. |
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| Description: | xiv, 240 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Royal Asiatic Society books |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7540156 |
Table of Contents:
- Figures
- Contributors
- Preface
- 1. Introduction: for a history of modern medicine in non-Western countries
- 2. Medical experimentation in British India: the case of Dr Helenus Scott
- 3. The construction of disease transmission in nineteenth-century Egypt
- 4. The waqf, the state and medical education in nineteenth century Iran
- 5. Waqf endowments and the emergence of modern charitable hospitals in the Ottoman Empire: the case of Zeynep-Kamil hospital in Istanbul
- 6. A bounded medical pluralism: Ayurveda and Western medicine in colonial and independent Sri Lanka
- 7. 'Modern medicine' in French colonial Vietnam: from the importation of a model to its nativisation
- 8. Making modernity with medicine: mission, state and community in leprosy control, Ogoja, Nigeria, 1945-50.
- 9. Cholera, consumer and citizenship: modernisations of medicine in Japan
- General bibliography
- Index
