Nancy Elizabeth Gallagher

Medicine and Power in Tunisia, 1780 1900

Herausgeber: Burke, Edmund Iii; Hudson, Michael C.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This study traces Muslim European medical confrontation through Tunisia's response to plague, cholera and typhus epidemics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juni 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 242g
• ISBN-13: 9780521529396
• ISBN-10: 0521529395
• Artikelnr.: 22133546

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Note on transliteration
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Indigenous medicine against plague, 1780-1830
2. Cholera in an age of European economic expansion, 1830-58
3. Cholera, typhus, and economic collapse, 1858-70
4. Colonization and collapse of Arab medical institutions
Conclusion
Appendices
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index.