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Hospitalization, Diagnosis, Treatment, and Surgery in Iran
The Lifecycle of Medical Sciences
- 1st Edition - January 14, 2023
- Author: Ali Akbar Velayati
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 5 3 0 5 - 1
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 5 3 0 6 - 8
Hospitalization, Diagnosis, Treatment, and Surgery: The Lifecycle of Medical Sciences in Iran provides a complete understanding of the lifecycle of medicine in the underserv… Read more
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Request a sales quoteHospitalization, Diagnosis, Treatment, and Surgery: The Lifecycle of Medical Sciences in Iran provides a complete understanding of the lifecycle of medicine in the underserved area of Iran. Coverage will elucidate the importance of communication between scientists in different countries for the further development of research to advance hospitalization infrastructure, diagnosis and treatment of diseases, and surgery techniques and availability.
Using a systematic timeline approach, coverage includes early medical sciences to present day of Iran. Each chapter highlights important research, techniques, and procedures throughout the lifecycle of medical sciences and includes topics from bloodletting and setting bones, to anesthesia and vaccines. The content in each chapter emphasizes standard protocols based on international recognition to help developing countries adopt newer technologies.
- Covers the lifecycle of medical sciences in Iran for a comprehensive introduction to the developments in hospitalization, diagnosis and treatment of diseases, and surgery
- Shows ways that modern technology can be utilized in underserved areas of the world
- Provides the unique perspective and insight into the diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases like M. tuberculosis from a country that has seen the progression of the disease and its available treatments over many years
Medical science researchers with an interest in historical and underdeveloped nation medical development
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- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- List of Contributors
- About the Cover
- Chapter 1. Hospitalization, diagnosis, treatment, and surgery in Iran (Before Islam)
- Description
- SubChapter 1.1. Zend-Avesta medical administration; medicine by the knife (surgery), medicine by herbs, and medicine by divine words
- SubChapter 1.2. The first teaching hospital and medical academy (Gondēshāpūr)
- SubChapter 1.3. Notable physicians during Persian empire
- SubChapter 1.4. Surgery evidences found in the Shahr-e-Sukhteh (Burnt City) in South-Eastern Iran
- Chapter 2. The medical lifecycle in regards of hospitalization, diagnosis, treatment, and surgery (after Islam)
- SubChapter 2.1. Starting the Islamic health approaches in Iran
- SubChapter 2.2. Medical development by Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakariyyāʾ al-Rāzī
- SubChapter 2.3. Medical development by Ibn Sina, commonly known as Avicenna in the West
- SubChapter 2.4. Medical development by Ali ibn al-'Abbas al-Majusi known as Masoudi, or Latinized as Haly Abbas
- SubChapter 2.5. The first medical books on human anatomy knowledge which called Tashrih-i badan-i insan. [Anatomy of the human body]
- Chapter 3. The medical life cycle of surgery in Iran: past and present
- Subchapter 3.1. History of medical surgery in Iran
- Subchapter 3.2. Medical lifecycle of bloodletting
- Subchapter 3.3. Medical lifecycle of trepanation in surgery
- Subchapter 3.4. Medical lifecycle in setting bones
- Subchapter 3.5. Anesthesia
- Chapter 4. The exchange of medical lifecycle in regards of hospitalization, diagnosis and treatment between the Iran and other developing countries
- SUBChapter 4.1. Medical lifecycle from Ilkhanate and Timurid till Zandieh era
- SUBChapter 4.2. Lifecycle medicine during the Qājār era
- SUBChapter 4.3. Vaccination progress in Iran
- SUBChapter 4.4. Medical lifecycle in the Pahlavi era
- SUBChapter 4.5. Medical lifecycle in the Islamic Republic of Iran so far
- SUBChapter 4.6. Exchange of medical lifecycle between Iran and other developing countries
- Index
- No. of pages: 208
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: January 14, 2023
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443153051
- eBook ISBN: 9780443153068
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Ali Akbar Velayati
Dr. Ali Akbar Velayati is the Director of the National Research Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases (NRITLD) at the Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences. He is a Full Professor of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, and he has guided more than 300 MD and PhD students. He is also the Head of Mycobacteriology Research Center (MRC) in NRITLD, where he directly monitors the basic and clinical trial on tuberculosis. Dr. Velayati is the President of the Asian African Society of Mycobacteriology and of the Society of Biomedical and Biotechnology Scientists. He is the Chief Editor of the International Journal of Mycobacteriology, the Journal of Preventive, Diagnostic and Treatment Strategies in Medicine, and the Biomedical and Biotechnology Research Journal.
Affiliations and expertise
Mycobacteriology Research Center (MRC) and Director, National Research Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (NRITLD), WHO Collaborating Centre, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IranRead Hospitalization, Diagnosis, Treatment, and Surgery in Iran on ScienceDirect