Lives at Risk: Public Health in Nineteenth-Century Egypt
(Part of the Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care Series)
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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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0520304993
ISBN13:9780520304994
Release Date:March 2022
Publisher:University of California Press
Length:246 Pages
Weight:0.70 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"
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