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UNINA9911117446203321 |
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Kuhnke LaVerne |
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Lives at Risk : Public Health in Nineteenth-Century Egypt / / LaVerne Kuhnke |
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Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2020] |
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©1990 |
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[Reprint 2020] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (248 p.) |
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Collana |
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Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care ; ; 24 |
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HISTORY / Native American |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Evolving Concepts of Disease and Medicine -- 1. Muhammad Ali and the Egyptians -- 2. Response: Establishment of the Egyptian School of Medicine -- 3. Cholera: The Epidemic of 1831 and Later Invasions -- 4. The Plague Epidemic of 1835: Background and Consequences -- 5. The International Quarantine Board -- 6. The Conquest of Smallpox: Variolation and Vaccination -- 7. Women Health Officers -- 8. Urban and Rural Health Programs: Hospitals, Clinics, and Provincial Health Centers -- 9. The Continuing Evolution of Concepts of Disease and Medicine -- Appendix 1 : A Public Health Establishment in Egypt, 1825-1850 -- Appendix 2: Medical- Pharmaceutical Personnel in the Public Health Service in Egypt under the Direction of the Sanitary Administration Resident in Alexandria (1851) -- Notes -- Index |
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Lives at Risk describes the introduction of Western medicine into Egypt. The two major innovations undertaken by Muhammad Ali in the mid-nineteenth century were a Western-style school of medicine and an international Quarantine Board. The ways in which these institutions succeeded and failed will greatly interest historians of medicine and of modern Egypt. And because the author relates her narrative to twentieth-century health issues in developing countries, Lives at Risk will also interest medical and social anthropologists. The presence of |
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