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Medicine and Power in Tunisia, 1780 1900

Medicine and Power in Tunisia, 1780 1900

Gallagher, Nancy Elizabeth
Burke, Edmund, III
Hudson, Michael C.

Paperback

Series: Cambridge Middle East Library, Book 2

Medical ReferenceGeneral Middle Eastern History

ISBN10: 0521529395
ISBN13: 9780521529396
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jul 25 2002
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.37 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Severe epidemics of plague, cholera, and typhus swept across Tunisia between the years 1780 and 1900. The society was galvanized into action: medical practitioners, religious authorities, and political leaders all tried to deal with the deadly crises. Muslims had, over many centuries, evolved ideas concerning the origin, prevention, and treatment of epidemic diseases that differed somewhat from those of their European counterparts. With European economic and political expansion that accelerated after the Napoleonic Wars, Muslims found themselves confronted not only by a new source of political power but by a new set of medical ideas. This study traces the medical confrontation through the society's response to epidemic disease.

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