Description: Further DetailsTitle: Lives at RiskCondition: NewSubtitle: Public Health in Nineteenth-Century EgyptISBN-10: 0520356802EAN: 9780520356801ISBN: 9780520356801Publisher: University of California PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 03/25/2022Description: 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 countries, Lives at Risk will also interest medical and social anthropologists. The presence of the quarantine establishment and the medical school in Egypt resulted in a rudimentary public health service. Paramedical personnel were trained to provide primary health care for the peasant population. A vaccination program effectively freed the nation from smallpox. But the disease-oriented, individual-care practice of medicine derived from the urban hospital model of industrializing Europe was totally incompatible with the health care requirements of a largely rural, agrarian population. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1990.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 216mmItem Length: 140mmItem Width: 18mmItem Weight: 454gAuthor: LaVerne KuhnkeGenre: Society & CultureTopic: Social SciencesBook Series: Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical CareRelease Year: 2022 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Lives at Risk
Title: Lives at Risk
Subtitle: Public Health in Nineteenth-Century Egypt
ISBN-10: 0520356802
EAN: 9780520356801
ISBN: 9780520356801
Release Date: 03/25/2022
Release Year: 2022
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Social Sciences
Number of Pages: 246 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Lives at Risk : Public Health in Nineteenth-Century Egypt
Publisher: University of California Press
Item Height: 0.7 in
Subject: Public Health, Anthropology / General
Publication Year: 2022
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 16 Oz
Subject Area: Social Science, Medical
Item Length: 8.5 in
Author: Laverne Kuhnke
Series: Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care Ser.
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Hardcover
