Perilous Modernity

History of Medicine in the Ottoman Empire and the Middle East from the 19th Century Onwards

Anne Marie Moulin, Yesim Isil Ulman

• Publisher: Gorgias Press
• Year: 2010
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781463230005
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Middle Eastern History
• Index: History

Perilous Modernity collects essays on the idea of modern science and medicine in the Ottoman Empire during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Table of contents

• TABLE OF CONTENTS
• INTRODUCTION: THE PARTICULAR PLACE OF MEDICINE IN THE DEBATE ON MODERNITY AND MODERNIZATION IN THE MIDDLE-EAST IN THE 19th AND THE 20th CENTURIES
• 1. Between East and West, shared and diverging visions and methods
• SOME METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES CONCERNING THE SCIENCES AT THE EUROPEAN PERIPHERY
• REFLEXIONS SUR LA PERCEPTION OTTOMANE DE LA SCIENCE MODERNE
• SOME PRELIMINARY THOUGHTS ABOUT THE TANZIMAT AND THE IDEA OF NATURE
• MAKING THE UNIVERSAL ONE’S OWN THE DIFFUSION OF MODERN SCIENCE THROUGH OTTOMAN JOURNALS ADDRESSING A GENERAL READERSHIP
• 2. Scenes and actors of modernization
• DU HAKIM RENÉGAT AU PRATICIEN EUROPÉEN : MUTATIONS D'IDENTITÉ DES MÉDECINS DE COUR ET MODERNISATION DU SERVICE RENDU AUX BEYS DE TUNIS DU XVIIe SIÈCLE AU MILIEU DU XIXe SIÈCLE
• DARWINIAN CONVERSIONS: SCIENCE AND TRANSLATION IN LATE OTTOMAN EGYPT AND GREATER SYRIA
• GLIMPSES OF RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HOSPITAL, STATE AND MEDICINE IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY IRAN
• MEDICAL MODERNIZATION IN 19TH CENTURY OTTOMAN EMPIRE WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE INTRODUCTION OF ROENTGEN RAYS IN TURKEY
• LES MESURES DE QUARANTAINE PRISES PENDANT LES ÉPIDEMIES DE CHOLÉRA ET LEURS RÉPERCUSSIONS SUR LA SOCIÉTÉ OTTOMANE (1831-1918)
• 3. Elusive modernity
• LES QUARANTAINES AU MOYEN-ORIENT : VECTEURS AMBIGUS DE LA MODERNITÉ MÉDICALE (XIXe-XXe SIÈCLES)
• CHANGEANTE MODERNITÉ, L’ÉTAT ÉGYPTIEN ET LA MODERNISATION DE LA SANTÉ PUBLIQUE (19e-20e SIÈCLE)
• SMALLPOX AND VARIOLATION IN A VILLAGE IN PALESTINE IN DECEMBER 1921: A CASE STUDY OF PUBLIC HEALTH, CULTURE AND COLONIAL MEDICINE
• SORROW AND ILLNESS: ‘MODERN’ EXPRESSIONS OF DEATH IN OTTOMAN MUSLIM EPITAPHS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
• UNE MÉDECINE MODERNE DISSOCIÉE DU PASSÉ OU L’AVÈNEMENT DE L’ÉCHOGRAPHIE OBSTÉTRICALE ET DU DIAGNOSTIC PRÉNATAL AU SULTANAT D’OMAN