Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (246 p.)
ISBN:
9780520310155
,
0520310152
Serie:
Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care Series
Inhalt:
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 coun
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780520304994
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Kuhnke, LaVerne Lives at Risk Berkeley : University of California Press,c2022 ISBN 9780520304994
Sprache:
Englisch
