Lives at Risk
Public Health in Nineteenth-Century Egypt
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2022
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-30499-4 (ISBN)
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-30499-4 (ISBN)
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Lives at Risk describes the introduction of Western medicine into Egypt. The two major innovations undertaken by Muhammad Ali in the mid-nineteenth century were a Western-style school of medicine and an international Quarantine Board. The ways in which these institutions succeeded and failed will greatly interest historians of medicine and of modern Egypt. And because the author relates her narrative to twentieth-century health issues in developing countries, Lives at Risk will also interest medical and social anthropologists. The presence of the quarantine establishment and the medical school in Egypt resulted in a rudimentary public health service. Paramedical personnel were trained to provide primary health care for the peasant population. A vaccination program effectively freed the nation from smallpox. But the disease-oriented, individual-care practice of medicine derived from the urban hospital model of industrializing Europe was totally incompatible with the health care requirements of a largely rural, agrarian population. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1990.
LaVerne Kuhnke is Associate Professor of History at Northeastern University and the author of Health and Sickness: Historical Perspectives.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 10.03.2022 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care |
| Verlagsort | Berkerley |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 318 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-520-30499-3 / 0520304993 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-520-30499-4 / 9780520304994 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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