Lives at Risk: Public Health in Nineteenth-Century Egypt

by LaVerne Kuhnke

Book Overview

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"