Until now, there have been no books and only a few articles
available in English that deal with the actual practice of medicine
in nineteenth and early twentieth-century Iran. Willem Floor's
Public Health in Qajar Iran fills this lacuna, giving a broad and
comprehensive survey of the state of public health, medical
practice, and its practitioners in 1800-1925. Based on firsthand
accounts of European travelers and doctors who practiced and
observed medical treatment, the study provides an overview of the
major diseases the population suffered and how these were treated.
It also includes the available evidence logged by Iranian patients
abroad and at home, as well as contemporary Persian texts that
comment on public health and its practice in Iran. Floor shuns the
analysis of classic Islamic medical textbooks, explaining that
their medical advice was hardly ever administered and that the
authors often had ideological (religious) agendas in writing these
treatises. Instead, Floor investigates the commonly accepted
theories of diseases, disorders, and their cures, including Islamic
Galenic medicine and pre-Islamic theurgic folk medicine based on
traditional herb lore and trial-and-error. The book concludes with
the impact of Western medicine on the traditional medical
institutions and public health in Qajar Iran. This exhaustive
inquiry will enthrall scholars of Iran and medicine alike.
General
Imprint: |
Mage Publishers
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
July 2004 |
First published: |
July 2004 |
Authors: |
Willem Floor
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Dimensions: |
215 x 280 x 15mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
|
Pages: |
270 |
Edition: |
New |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-934211-08-6 |
Categories: |
Books >
Medicine >
General issues >
History of medicine
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LSN: |
0-934211-08-6 |
Barcode: |
9780934211086 |
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