Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Note on transliteration
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Indigenous medicine against plague, 1780–1830
- 2 Cholera in an age of European economic expansion, 1830–58
- 3 Cholera, typhus, and economic collapse, 1858–70
- 4 Colonization and collapse of Arab medical institutions
- Conclusion
- APPENDIX A Waqf (hubus) document for the maristan of Tunis
- APPENDIX B Letter from Husayn Bey to de Lesseps on reasons for the quarantine
- APPENDIX C Epidemics and population trends
- Notes
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 November 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Note on transliteration
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Indigenous medicine against plague, 1780–1830
- 2 Cholera in an age of European economic expansion, 1830–58
- 3 Cholera, typhus, and economic collapse, 1858–70
- 4 Colonization and collapse of Arab medical institutions
- Conclusion
- APPENDIX A Waqf (hubus) document for the maristan of Tunis
- APPENDIX B Letter from Husayn Bey to de Lesseps on reasons for the quarantine
- APPENDIX C Epidemics and population trends
- Notes
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Medicine and Power in Tunisia, 1780–1900 , pp. i - ivPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1983