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.
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Qajar Persia was an agrarian subsistence economy with a total population of about 5 million in 1800 and of about 9 million in 1900. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Government of Iran, Government of Great Britain, Persidskie Doktora, Qajar Persia, New York, Trade Report, Amir Kabir, The Transformation, The Wild Rue, Persian Gulf, Doctor's Holiday, Saltaneh Mafi, Mohammad Shah, Persian Sketches, Physikalisch-medicinische Skizze, The Cradle, Geographical Handbook, Medicinische Briefe, Ella Sykes, Friend of Iran, Farm Life, Tehran-e Qadim, Akbar Khan, Hajji Baba, John Malcolm New!
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Qajar Persia was an agrarian subsistence economy with a total population of about 5 million in 1800 and of about 9 million in 1900. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Government of Iran, Government of Great Britain, Persidskie Doktora, Qajar Persia, New York, Trade Report, Amir Kabir, The Transformation, The Wild Rue, Persian Gulf, Doctor's Holiday, Saltaneh Mafi, Mohammad Shah, Persian Sketches, Physikalisch-medicinische Skizze, The Cradle, Geographical Handbook, Medicinische Briefe, Ella Sykes, Friend of Iran, Farm Life, Tehran-e Qadim, Akbar Khan, Hajji Baba, John Malcolm New!
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- Persia and Its People by Ella Constance Sykes on 12 pages
- About Persia and Its People by Joseph Knanishu on page 49, page 92, and Back Matter
- In a Persian oil field (European business) by John Woolfenden Williamson on page 24, page 173, and Back Matter
- Year Amongst the Persians by Edward G. Browne on page 71, and Back Matter
- Through Persia on a Side-Saddle (Equestrian Travel Classics) by Ella C. Sykes on page 48, and Back Matter
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- The History of Theater in Iran by Willem Floor on page 189, and Back Matter
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