Medicine, public health, and the Qajar state : : patterns of medical modernization in nineteenth-century Iran / / by Hormoz Ebrahimnejad.

• Superior document: Sir Henry Wellcome Asian studies ; v. 4
• Author: Kitabkhanah-i Majlis-i Shura-yi Milli (Iran).; Ebrahimnejad, Hormoz.
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Sir Henry Wellcome Asian studies ; v. 4.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 266 pages) :; illustrations
• Notes: Includes Persian text and English translation of Manuscript 505 in the Majles Library, Tehran.

The starting-point for this volume is a previously unstudied nineteenth-century Persian text concerning hospital reform, and of great importance for understanding the history of medical care in nineteenth century Iran. The volume provides surprising new insights into the interrelation of medical practice, public health and politics in Qājār Iran. Rather than showing a straightforward replacement, it reveals that Western medicine was assimilated through dialogue into traditional medical systems. It argues that institutional changes preceded intellectual transitions insofar as the first reforms in the medical system were implemented at an institutional level as part of the development of the Qājār state and with the active involvement of traditional court physicians. Full edited text with translation and commentary. With illustrations.

Table of Contents

Intro -- CONTENTS -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- System of transliteration -- Preface -- PART ONE: THE INSTITUTIONAL AND THEORETICAL CHANGE IN TRADITIONAL MEDICINE -- Introduction -- Chapter One: A cursory review of hospitals -- Hospitals in the pre-historic era and antiquity -- Islamic period -- Organization and administration -- Chapter Two: Public health and socio-political changes -- The modernization movement in the nineteenth century -- Towards the creation of public health -- Chapter Three: The manuscript, the author and the hospital -- The manuscript and its author -- The Marizkh&amp -- #257 -- neh-ye dowlati (state hospital) -- Description of the Marizkh&amp -- #257 -- neh-ye dowlati according to manuscript 505 -- The hospital and the religious establishment -- The charitable hospital and Islamic politics -- The hospital and the sick poor -- Administration -- Chapter Four: Traditional medicine and modernization -- The Q&amp -- #257 -- j&amp -- #257 -- r state and the institutionalization of medicine -- Laqab, court appointments and the Q&amp -- #257 -- j&amp -- #257 -- r administration -- The re-institutionalisation of traditional medicine -- Chapter Five: Towards the epistemology of medical modernization -- Glimpses of the epistemological study of medical modernization -- The institutional aspect of medical modernization -- Conclusion -- PART TWO: ON THE BENEFITS, THE MAINTENANCE AND THE STATUTES OF THE STATE HOSPITAL -- Preface -- Introduction -- I. On the benefits of the hospital for soldiers, the homeless and the poor -- II. Benefits of the Hospital for the sublime Government -- III. 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 -- IV. On the attributes, ethics and duties of the Chief Health Officer of the army.

V. On the qualities, disposition and duties of the Chief Physician of the army -- VI. On the grade, qualities and duties of the hospital's doctors The duties of the physicians of the hospital -- VII. On the qualifications and the duties of the surgeons of the hospital -- VIII. Qualities and duties of the pharmacists of the hospital -- The duties of the pharmacists -- IX. On the attributes and duties of the First Secretary who is the [financial] Inspector of the hospital -- X. On the ethics and duties of the Second Secretary, who is the Supervisor of the hospital -- XI. The duties of the Third Mirz&amp -- #257 -- s (or the cashiers) -- XII. On the duties of the nurses in the hospital -- XIII. On the duties of the guards of the hospital -- Persian text -- Bibliography -- Glossary -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z -- Indices -- Index of names -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Index of subjects -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z.