Perilous Modernity: History of Medicine in the Ottoman Empire and the Middle East from the 19th Century Onwards (Analecta Isisiana: Ottoman and Turkish Studies)

Perilous Modernity collects essays on the idea of modern science and medicine in the Ottoman Empire during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION: THE PARTICULAR PLACE OF MEDICINE IN THE DEBATE ON MODERNITY AND MODERNIZATION IN THE MIDDLE-EAST IN THE 19th AND THE 20th CENTURIES 1. Between East and West, shared and diverging visions and methods SOME METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES CONCERNING THE SCIENCES AT THE EUROPEAN PERIPHERY REFLEXIONS SUR LA PERCEPTION OTTOMANE DE LA SCIENCE MODERNE SOME PRELIMINARY THOUGHTS ABOUT THE TANZIMAT AND THE IDEA OF NATURE MAKING THE UNIVERSAL ONE’S OWN THE DIFFUSION OF MODERN SCIENCE THROUGH OTTOMAN JOURNALS ADDRESSING A GENERAL READERSHIP 2. Scenes and actors of modernization DU HAKIM RENÉGAT AU PRATICIEN EUROPÉEN : MUTATIONS D'IDENTITÉ DES MÉDECINS DE COUR ET MODERNISATION DU SERVICE RENDU AUX BEYS DE TUNIS DU XVIIe SIÈCLE AU MILIEU DU XIXe SIÈCLE DARWINIAN CONVERSIONS: SCIENCE AND TRANSLATION IN LATE OTTOMAN EGYPT AND GREATER SYRIA GLIMPSES OF RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HOSPITAL, STATE AND MEDICINE IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY IRAN MEDICAL MODERNIZATION IN 19TH CENTURY OTTOMAN EMPIRE WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE INTRODUCTION OF ROENTGEN RAYS IN TURKEY LES MESURES DE QUARANTAINE PRISES PENDANT LES ÉPIDEMIES DE CHOLÉRA ET LEURS RÉPERCUSSIONS SUR LA SOCIÉTÉ OTTOMANE (1831-1918) 3. Elusive modernity LES QUARANTAINES AU MOYEN-ORIENT : VECTEURS AMBIGUS DE LA MODERNITÉ MÉDICALE (XIXe-XXe SIÈCLES) CHANGEANTE MODERNITÉ, L’ÉTAT ÉGYPTIEN ET LA MODERNISATION DE LA SANTÉ PUBLIQUE (19e-20e SIÈCLE) SMALLPOX AND VARIOLATION IN A VILLAGE IN PALESTINE IN DECEMBER 1921: A CASE STUDY OF PUBLIC HEALTH, CULTURE AND COLONIAL MEDICINE SORROW AND ILLNESS: ‘MODERN’ EXPRESSIONS OF DEATH IN OTTOMAN MUSLIM EPITAPHS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY UNE MÉDECINE MODERNE DISSOCIÉE DU PASSÉ OU L’AVÈNEMENT DE L’ÉCHOGRAPHIE OBSTÉTRICALE ET DU DIAGNOSTIC PRÉNATAL AU SULTANAT D’OMAN