Medicine, public health and the Qajar state : patterns of medical modernization in nineteenth-century Iran / by Hormoz Ebrahimnejad.
Pubblicazione:
Leiden : Brill, 2004.
Descrizione fisica:
XIV, 266 p. :ill., ritr. ; 25 cm
Serie:
Sir Henry Wellcome Asian studies ; 4
Contiene:
Indice: List of illustrations. Acknowledgements. System of transliteration. preface. Pt. 1. The institutional and theoretical change in traditional medicine: Introduction. 1. A cursory review of hospitals 2. Public health and socio-political changes 3. The manuscript, the author and the hospital 4. Traditional medicine and modernization 5. Towards the epistemology of medical modernization. Conclusion. Pt. 2. On the benefits, the maintenance and the statutes of the state hospital: Preface. Introduction. 1. On the benefits of the hospital for soldiers, the homeless and the poor 2. Benefits of the hospital for the sublime government 3. 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 4. On the attributes, ethics and duties of the chief health officer of the army 5. On the qualities, disposition and duties of the chief physician of the army 6. On the grade, qualities and duties of the hospital's doctors 7. On the qualifications and the duties of the surgeons of the hospital 8. Qualities and duties of the pharmacists of the hospital 9. On the ethics and duties of the second secretary, who is the (financial) inspector of the hospital 10. On the ethics and duties of the second secretary, who is the supervisor of the hospital 11. The duties of the third mirzas (or the cashiers) 12. On the duties of the nurses in the hospital 13. On the duties of the guards of the hospital. Persian text. Bibliography. Glossary. Indices
ISBN:
9004139117
Discipline:
Medicina--Ospedali e assistenza sociale e sanitaria.
