This book traces how medicine in modern Iran was both theoretically and institutionally transformed in the 19th and 20th centuries. It explores the process by which local physicians, in a non-colonial context, assimilated the emerging "modern medicine" and the institutional devices that accommodated this transition.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. The State of Medical Theory and Practice in Nineteenth-Century Iran 2. The Physicians and their Encounter with Western Medicine 3. The Reform Movement and Medical Institutionalization 4. Medical Transition under the Constitution