The development of modern medicine in non-western countries : historical perspectives / edited by Hormoz Ebrahimnejad.

Abingdon ; New York : Routledge, 2008.

xii, 240 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Introduction : for a history of modern medicine in non-western countries / Hormoz Ebrahimnejad -- Medical experimentation in British India : the case of Dr. Helenus Scott / Mark Harrison -- The construction of disease transmission in nineteenth-century Egypt / Anne-Marie Moulin -- The waqf, the state, and medical education in nineteenth-century Iran / Hormoz Ebrahimnejad -- Waqf endowments and the emergence of modern charitable hospitals in the Ottoman Empire : the case of Zeynep-Kamil Hospital in Istanbul / Feza Günergun & Seref Etker --

A bounded medical pluralism : Ayurveda and western medicine in colonial and independent Sri Lanka / Margaret Jones -- "Modern medicine" in French colonial Vietnam : from the importation of a model to its nativisation / Laurence Monnais -- Making modernity with medicine : mission, state, and community in leprosy control, Ogoja, Nigeria, 1945-1950 / John Manton -- Cholera, consumer, and citizenship : modernizations of medicine in Japan / Akihito Suzuki & Mika Suzuki.

Includes bibliographical references and index.