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Title: | Contagion and Quarantine in Tunis and Cairo, 1800-1870 |
Author: | Gallagher, Nancy E. |
Year: | 1982 |
Periodical: | Maghreb Review |
Volume: | 7 |
Issue: | 5-6 |
Period: | September-December |
Pages: | 108-111 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Tunisia Egypt |
Subjects: | epidemics medical history History and Exploration Health and Nutrition |
Abstract: | Quarantine as a measure to control and prevent epidemics was a much debated issue in the nineteenth century. The author illustrates the bitter conflicts and emotions this controversial measure provoked with examples from Cairo and Tunis. She concludes that 'the efforts directed at disease control did not initially inspire popular confidence in Western medicine. The harsh public health measures were possible only because of the political and military superiority of their advocates. The public resented the quarantine measures for their inconvenience and for religious, economic, and cultural reasons; the controversies were fueled by the undeniable fact that the measures were not demonstrably efficacious in Europe or in the Middle East'. Notes. |