Modern Medicine in the Holy Land: Pioneering British Medical Services in Late Ottoman Palestine (International Library of Colonial History) - Hardcover

Perry, Yaron; Lev, Efraim

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1845114892 ISBN 13: 9781845114893

Publisher: I.B. Tauris, 2007

Synopsis

This book provides an in-depth assessment of the pioneering work of British Hospitals in Palestine in the nineteenth century, and finds these institutions made great contributions to the modernization of the country. The large numbers of Europeans, spearheaded by British missionaries, who began to visit Palestine and the Levant, brought modern medical practices to the region. The driving factor for this change was the medical enterprise of the London Mission and the series of hospitals it established. This pioneering initiative led to the development of competition among the Great Powers in Palestine and by the end of the nineteenth century there were scores of medical institutions that were representative of the modern age. Using a wide selection of primary sources from both Britain and Israel, Perry and Lev bring together for the first time the history of medical service men who fought to improve the health of the inhabitants of the Holy Land under the most difficult conditions of climate and disease

About this title

About the Author:

Yaron Perry is Lecturer in History in the department of Land of Israel Studies, University of Haifa. Efraim Lev is Lecturer in Biology and the History of Medicine and Pharmacology at the departments of Land of Israel Studies and Public Health at the University of Haifa.

Review:

""I have no doubt about the need for such original and high academic quality book to be published and fill up a gap of knowledge in this field. This book will also serve as a written memorial monument for the brave British physicians that risk their lives while acting to save lives in a country of tough physical and social conditions...will be an important reference book for scholars and students as well as an interesting reading book for the general public."" -- Shifra Shvarts, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University
""The book, which is written in a lucid and fluent style, will be given due value among readers throughout the world. It is addressed to a wide reading public that finds interest in the history of the Middle East and the Land of Israel during the 19th and early 20th century. It will also be of interest to researchers and students in academic institutions who are engaged in oriental studies, in the history of the Land of Israel, in European imperialism in the Levant, in the science of medicine and welfare, in the varied religious and foreign missionary activities in the Middle East, and in the process of modernization that brought about radical changes in the Holy Land."" -- Arie Kofsky University of Haifa

About this edition

• Publisher: I.B. Tauris
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1845114892
• ISBN 13: 9781845114893
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256