Year: 2011
Type: article
Abstract: The search for international measures to prevent and control epidemics of cholera, the plague, yellow fever, malaria and typhus which ravaged the world throughout the 19th century, led to a series of International Sanitary Conferences and Conventions under the leadership of European states. Between 1851 and 1938 fourteen conferences - Paris (1851), Paris (1859), Istanbul (1866), Vienna (1874), Washington D.C. (1881), Rome (1885), Venice (1892), Dresden (1893), Paris (1894), Venice (1897), Paris (1903), (1911), (1926) and (1938) - and eight conventions – 1892, 1893, 1894, 1897, 1903, 1912, 1926, 1938 were held. Both conferences and conventions shaped social life, health policies, politics, laws, and transportation, economic, commercial rules of the European, Asian and also American countries. In this study we reviewed the reasons, process and the results of each international sanitary conference from the Ottoman social and health perspective.
Authors: Nermin Ersoy, Yuksel Gungor, Aslihan Akpinar
Institutions: Johns Hopkins University Press, Kocaeli Üniversitesi
Language: English
Topic: Ottoman and Turkish Studies
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W1970832399