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The Body and the Body Politic: Medicine, Public Health, and Healing as History in the Modern Middle East and North Africa

Abstract

Medicine and healing are intertwined with history, because the body is the precondition of human sovereignty. The body is the base of the body politic.

Authors

Amster E

Journal

International Journal Middle East Studies, Vol. 47, No. 3, pp. 563–565

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (CUP)

Publication Date

August 2015

DOI

10.1017/s0020743815000562

ISSN

0020-7438