Perilous Modernity : : History of Medicine in the Ottoman Empire and the Middle East from the 19th Century Onwards / / ed. by Yesim Isil Ulman, Anne Marie Moulin.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Beaudevin, Claire,; Chiffoleau, Sylvia,; Davidovitch, Nadav,; Dòlen, Emre,; Ebrahimnejad, Hormoz,; Eldem, Edhem,; Elshakry, Marwa,; Gavroglu, Kostas,; Greenberg, Zalman,; Işil Ulman, Yeşim,; K. Neumann, Christoph,; Mardin, Şerif,; Marie Moulin, Anne,; Oualdi, M\x27hamed,; Yildirim, Nuran,
• HerausgeberIn: Moulin, Anne Marie,; Ulman, Yesim Isil,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2010]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Analecta Isisiana: Ottoman and Turkish Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (231 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; TABLE OF CONTENTS --; INTRODUCTION: THE PARTICULAR PLACE OF MEDICINE IN THE DEBATE ON MODERNITY AND MODERNIZATION IN THE MIDDLE-EAST IN THE 19th AND THE 20th CENTURIES --; 1. Between East and West, shared and diverging visions and methods --; SOME METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES CONCERNING THE SCIENCES AT THE EUROPEAN PERIPHERY --; REFLEXIONS SUR LA PERCEPTION OTTOMANE DE LA SCIENCE MODERNE --; SOME PRELIMINARY THOUGHTS ABOUT THE TANZIMAT AND THE IDEA OF NATURE --; MAKING THE UNIVERSAL ONE’S OWN THE DIFFUSION OF MODERN SCIENCE THROUGH OTTOMAN JOURNALS ADDRESSING A GENERAL READERSHIP --; 2. Scenes and actors of modernization --; DU HAKIM RENÉGAT AU PRATICIEN EUROPÉEN : MUTATIONS D'IDENTITÉ DES MÉDECINS DE COUR ET MODERNISATION DU SERVICE RENDU AUX BEYS DE TUNIS DU XVIIe SIÈCLE AU MILIEU DU XIXe SIÈCLE --; DARWINIAN CONVERSIONS: SCIENCE AND TRANSLATION IN LATE OTTOMAN EGYPT AND GREATER SYRIA --; GLIMPSES OF RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HOSPITAL, STATE AND MEDICINE IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY IRAN --; MEDICAL MODERNIZATION IN 19TH CENTURY OTTOMAN EMPIRE WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE INTRODUCTION OF ROENTGEN RAYS IN TURKEY --; LES MESURES DE QUARANTAINE PRISES PENDANT LES ÉPIDEMIES DE CHOLÉRA ET LEURS RÉPERCUSSIONS SUR LA SOCIÉTÉ OTTOMANE (1831-1918) --; 3. Elusive modernity --; LES QUARANTAINES AU MOYEN-ORIENT : VECTEURS AMBIGUS DE LA MODERNITÉ MÉDICALE (XIXe-XXe SIÈCLES) --; CHANGEANTE MODERNITÉ, L’ÉTAT ÉGYPTIEN ET LA MODERNISATION DE LA SANTÉ PUBLIQUE (19e-20e SIÈCLE) --; SMALLPOX AND VARIOLATION IN A VILLAGE IN PALESTINE IN DECEMBER 1921: A CASE STUDY OF PUBLIC HEALTH, CULTURE AND COLONIAL MEDICINE --; SORROW AND ILLNESS: ‘MODERN’ EXPRESSIONS OF DEATH IN OTTOMAN MUSLIM EPITAPHS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY --; UNE MÉDECINE MODERNE DISSOCIÉE DU PASSÉ OU L’AVÈNEMENT DE L’ÉCHOGRAPHIE OBSTÉTRICALE ET DU DIAGNOSTIC PRÉNATAL AU SULTANAT D’OMAN
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781463230005; 9783111024141; 9783110663037
• DOI: 10.31826/9781463230005
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Yesim Isil Ulman, Anne Marie Moulin.

Perilous Modernity collects essays on the idea of modern science and medicine in the Ottoman Empire during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.