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Lives at Risk: Public Health in Nineteenth-Century Egypt (Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care)
Lives at Risk Public Health in NineteenthCentury Egypt - Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care
Author: Laverne Kuhnke
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 o...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780520063648
ISBN-10: 0520063643
Publication Date: 4/10/1990
Pages: 233
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Publisher: Univ of California Pr
Book Type: Hardcover
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