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Lives at Risk – Public Health in Nineteenth–Century Egypt: Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care

Autor Laverne Kuhnke
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 24 mar 2022
"An outstanding piece of work, one that should be read by all scholars and students of modern Egyptian history as well as of the problems of disease and health in developing countries."--Arthur E. Goldschmidt, Pennsylvania State University
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ISBN-13: 9780520356801
ISBN-10: 0520356802
Pagini: 246
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Editura: University of California Press
Seria Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care


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LaVerne Kuhnke is Associate Professor of History at Northeastern University and the author of Health and Sickness: Historical Perspectives.

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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