Medicine in Iran : profession, practice, and politics, 1800-1925 / Hormoz Ebrahimnejad.

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

xiv, 254 pages : illustrations, map, portrait ; 23 cm

First edition.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The state of medical theory and practice in nineteenth-century Iran -- The physicians and their encounter with western medicine -- The reform movement and medical institutionalisation -- Medical transition under the constitution -- Conclusion.