Article ID: CBB001510311

Iranian Medicine's Encounter with the Cholera and Plague Epidemics in Qajar Iran in the 19th Century (2013)

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Karimkhanzand, Mostafa (Author)


Tarikh-e Elm (The Iranian Journal for the History of Science)
Volume: 10, no. 2
Issue: 2
Pages: 93-126


Publication Date: 2013
Edition Details: [Translated title.] In Persian.
Language: Persian

Cholera and plague were widespread deadly epidemics and diseases which broke out in the some regions of Iran for several times during the 19th and 20th centuries. Since the early 20th century, the spreading of these diseases ceased due to the introduction of modern sanitary rules and principles, development of public health and the use of some preventive measures. This article discusses the Iranian medicine's reaction to the cholera and plague outbreaks in the 19th century. The main concern is how the discourse of the Iranian medicine dealt with the problem of cholera and plague when these diseases emerged. The subject is how this kind of knowledge diagnosed these diseases, what nature it assumed for them and what treatments prescribed. This study focuses on the first decades of the emerging of those epidemics before the encounter of Iranian medicine with modern western medicine.

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Authors & Contributors
Almeida, Maria Antónia Pires de
Ismail, Shehab
Seyed Amir Hossein Golshani
Tina Travagliante
Babak Daneshfard
Mohammad Ebrahim Zohalinezhad
Concepts
Public health
Epidemics
Cholera
Disease and diseases
Medicine
Medicine and society
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
Early modern
20th century
Places
England
United States
Portugal
Iran
Great Britain
Middle and Near East
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