The Sick Man and his Medicine: Public Health Reform in the Ottoman Empire and Egypt

The Sick Man and his Medicine: Public Health Reform in the Ottoman Empire and Egypt

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The Sick Man and his Medicine: Public Health Reform in the Ottoman Empire and Egypt

dc.contributor.advisor	Hutt, Peter Barton	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Aksakal, Layla J.	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2012-12-07T15:14:24Z
dc.date.issued	2003	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	The Sick Man and his Medicine: Public Health Reform in the Ottoman Empire and Egypt (2003 Third Year Paper)	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:10015270
dc.description.abstract	This paper examines the transformation of public health institutions in the Ottoman Empire and Egypt in the nineteenth century. I argue that the regionâ€™s political, financial, and military vulnerability in that period led to a wide-ranging institutional reform movement that also had a great impact on the public health system. As the state centralized, it began to intervene directly in the lives and bodies of its population with the purpose of developing a strong, healthy polity that would be able to compete in the international arena of states. Examples of this intervention included the establishment of professional medical and pharmacy schools and the implementation of compulsory vaccinations, quarantines, and rigorous inspection of food and drugs in the marketplace. Although these measures were often contested and resisted, and despite a perennial shortage of financial resources, the efforts of nineteenth-century Ottoman and Egyptian statesmen and professionals did lay the groundwork for modern public health care in the Middle East.	en
dc.language.iso	en_US	en
dash.license	LAA	en_US
dc.subject	Food and Drug Law	en
dc.subject	Middle East	en
dc.subject	history	en
dc.subject	public	en
dc.subject	health	en
dc.title	The Sick Man and his Medicine: Public Health Reform in the Ottoman Empire and Egypt	en
dc.type	Paper (for course/seminar/workshop)	en_US
dc.date.available	2012-12-07T15:14:24Z