Lives at Risk : Public Health in Nineteenth-Century Egypt / / LaVerne Kuhnke

• Autore: Kuhnke LaVerne
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2020]; ©1990
• Edizione: Reprint 2020
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (248 p.)
• Disciplina: 614.4/0962/09034
• Soggetto topico: HISTORY / Native American
• Soggetto non controllato: Western Medicine; care; disease; ethnic studies; health; history of medicine; history of the Americas; history; indigenous peoples; individual; innovation; institution; medicine; nation; population; practice of medicine; public; service; sociology
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 the quarantine establishment and the medical school in Egypt resulted in a rudimentary public health service. Paramedical personnel were trained to provide primary health care for the peasant population. A vaccination program effectively freed the nation from smallpox. But the disease-oriented, individual-care practice of medicine derived from the urban hospital model of industrializing Europe was totally incompatible with the health care requirements of a largely rural, agrarian population.
• Titolo autorizzato: Lives at risk
• ISBN: 9780520310155; 0520310152
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9911117446203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care Series