Medicine in Iran

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

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   Pages 1-13

3. The State of Medical Theory and Practice in Nineteenth-Century Iran

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   Pages 15-48

4. The Physicians and Their Encounter with Western Medicine

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5. The Reform Movement and Medical Institutionalization

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6. Medical Transition under the Constitution

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7. Conclusion

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8. Back Matter

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This book traces how medicine in modern Iran was both theoretically and institutionally transformed in the 19th and 20th centuries. It explores the process by which local physicians, in a non-colonial context, assimilated the emerging "modern medicine" and the institutional devices that accommodated this transition.

• Iran
• reform
• Western Medicine

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Hormoz Ebrahimnejad is Lecturer in History at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Southampton, UK. He has specialized in the history of Qâjâr and his first book was published on power and succession in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Iran. Since 1996, he has focused on the history of medicine in Iran on which he has widely published, including The Development of Modern Medicine in Non-Western Countries (2009) that he has edited.

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