Lives at Risk: Public Health in Nineteenth-Century Egypt (Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care)

468 Pages·1990·1.24 MB·English

by  LaVerne Kuhnke

title:
author:
publisher:
isbn10 | asin:
print isbn13:
ebook isbn13:
language:
subject
publication date:
lcc:
ddc:
subject:
Page i
Lives at Risk
Page ii
COMPARATIVE STUDIES OF HEALTH SYSTEMS AND
MEDICAL CARE
General Editor
John M. Janzen
Founding Editor
Charles Leslie
Editorial Board
Don Bates, M.D.,
McGill University
Frederick L. Dunn, M.D.,
University of California, San Francisco
Kris Heggenhougen,
University of London
Brigitte Jordan,
Michigan State University
Patricia L. Rosenfield,
World Health Organization
Paul U. Unschuld,
University of Munich
Francis Zimmermann,
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris
For a complete list of titles in this series, please contact the
Sales Department
University of California Press
2120 Berkeley Way
Berkeley, CA 94720
Page iii
Lives at Risk
Public Health in Nineteenth-Century
Egypt
LaVerne Kuhnke
Page iv
University of California Press
Berkeley and Los Angeles, California
University of California Press
Oxford, England
Copyright © 1990 by
The Regents of the University of California
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Kuhnke, LaVerne.
Lives at risk: public health in nineteenth-century Egypt /
LaVerne Kuhnke.
p. cm.(Comparative studies of health systems and medical
care; no. 24)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-520-06364-3 (alk. paper)
1. Public healthEgyptHistory. 2. Medical careEgypt
History. 3. EpidemicsEgyptHistory. I. Title. II. Series.
RA549.K83 1990
614.4'0962'09034dc20 89-33122
CIP
Printed in the United States of America
9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements
of American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence
of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984
Page v
To Bob, George, and Elizabeth
Page vii
Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Evolving Concepts of Disease and Medicine 1
1 17
Muhammad Ali and the Egyptians
2 33
Response: Establishment of the Egyptian School of
Medicine
3 49
Cholera: The Epidemic of 1831 and Later Invasions
4 69
The Plague Epidemic of 1835: Background and
Consequences
5 92
The International Quarantine Board
6 111
The Conquest of Smallpox: Variolation and Vaccination
7 122
Women Health Officers
8 134
Urban and Rural Health Programs: Hospitals, Clinics, and
Provincial Health Centers
9 153
The Continuing Evolution of Concepts of Disease and
Medicine
Appendix l: A Public Health Establishment in Egypt, 167
18251850
Page viii
Appendix 2: Medical-Pharmaceutical Personnel in the 168
Public Health Service in Egypt, 1851
Notes 179
Index 231