Bøger af Nancy Elizabeth Gallagher

Three devastating epidemics swept Egypt in the 1940s, killing thousands of people. This book reconstructs the nation's fight against malaria, relapsing fever, and cholera and explores the unique combination of forces that placed public health on the national political agenda for the first time.

European economic and political expansion, which accelerated after the Napoleonic Wars, confronted Muslims not only withh a new source of political power but also with a new set of medical ideas. This study traces the medical confrontation through the society's response to epidemic disease.