Medicine in Iran: profession, practice, nd politics, 1800–1925. Review
Abstract
Ebrahimnejad, Hormoz. *Medicine in Iran: Profession, Practice, and Politics, 1800‒1925.* New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. 254 p.
The author of the book under review, Hormoz Ebrahimnejad, is a lecturer in history at the Humanities faculty at Southampton University (UK). On his university webpage, Ebrahimnejad notes that his interests include the structure of power in Iran following the 1979 Revolution, an event he experienced firsthand: “I was intrigued by how and why such an event occurred. In the space of a few months, the Revolution swept out the Shah’s regime, which was, in the words of Jimmy Carter, the isle of stability in the Middle East.”
Ebrahimnejad’s dissertation, written and defended at Paris-Sorbonne, explored power and its manifestations during the early period of the Qajar dynasty. This work was published as a book (*Succession et pouvoir en Iran: les premiers Qâjârs. 1726‒1834*. Paris: L’Harmattan, 1999). While working in archives, Ebrahimnejad unearthed a significant quantity of material on epidemics that directly or indirectly influenced the political environment in Iran. This research motivated him to study the influence of epidemics on the medical literature of the period.
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