Archives and Documentation Center
Digital Archives

Medicine and politics in the late Ottoman Empire (1876-1909)

Show simple item record

dc.contributor Graduate Program in Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History.
dc.contributor.advisor Özbek, Nadir.
dc.contributor.author Kalkan, İbrahim Halil.
dc.date.accessioned 2023-10-22T04:20:16Z
dc.date.available 2023-10-22T04:20:16Z
dc.date.issued 2004.
dc.identifier.other HTR 2004 K35
dc.identifier.uri http://digitalarchive.boun.edu.tr/handle/123456789/20144
dc.description.abstract This thesis, as a work of social history, studies medicine as political phenomena through its three aspects: public hygiene within the urban space, syphilis and forensics, in the late Ottoman Empire. As a result of the conception of medicine as political, this study deals with the issue within the framework of relations of power and domination. Thus, it focuses on acts of different social and historical actors determined by the strategic positions of each within the social hierarchy. Within this framework, this study analyses the policies in the medical realm from the standpoint of social stratification. The period selected to study, the reign of Abdülhamid II, was a turning point in terms of the occurrence of an immediate acceleration in the efforts of the political power towards the medical and political control of the social body. However, the policies of public health which were planned to become highly intrusive in the lives of the poor masses engendered their resistance in the form of refusal and escape. On the other hand, within the framework of resistance, forensics as an illustration of the incorporation of medicine into the law towards the constitution of a normative social order was perceived by the weak as a tool to contest the abusive power of the agents of the modern state.
dc.format.extent 30cm.
dc.publisher Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2004.
dc.subject.lcsh Medicine -- Turkey -- History.
dc.subject.lcsh Public health -- Political aspects.
dc.subject.lcsh Public health -- Turkey -- History.
dc.title Medicine and politics in the late Ottoman Empire (1876-1909)
dc.format.pages vi, 114 leaves;


Files in this item

This item appears in the following Collection(s)

Show simple item record

Search Digital Archive


Browse

My Account