Generational Differences: American Medical Missionaries in Iran, 1834—1940

Wytenbroek, Lydia

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“…Secondly, because the missionaries were able to transfer the knowledge needed for instructing practitioners to Iran. Of course, the teaching of modern medicine in Iran was sponsored by the state from the middle of the 19th century, but nursing education was almost exclusively a missionary domain practically till the 1930s (Brown 1936, p. 59;Wytenbroek 2018). The governmental support for the nursing schools run by missionaries at that time can be seen in the context of the official policy of modernizing society, which was manifested, in relation to women, in implementation of the law against wearing Islamic chadors.…”

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“…Focusing on women missionaries in Iran, Gulnar Francis-Dehqani (2000) depicted the work of Emeline Stuart, a British missionary doctor, in reference to gender and power rations in the missionary field. Lydia Wytenbroek (2018) revealed the history of the American nurses and the growth of nursing as a profession in Iran. While analyzing the local circumstances of nursing work in a Muslim country, she, in fact, made a huge contribution to the field of global nursing studies.…”

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Protestant Medical Missions in Iran: Negotiating Religion and Modernity in Mission Hospitals

Rzepka

2024

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Focusing on the Protestant mission hospitals in Iran during the reign of Reza Pahlavi, this article analyzes the concepts and ideas referred to as medical care in missionary narratives as well as reactions of the Iranians to the missionary medical initiatives. Trying to situate mission hospitals in the context of the rapid social and cultural changes that the Iranians faced because of the implementation of the monarch’s reforms and the policies of centralization, statism, and social uniformity, the article puts emphasis on the fact that mission hospitals introduced a processual and negotiable type of medical modernity different from what was launched by the state at that time. Creating the healthcare networks in Iran, the Protestant hospitals produced the ideal—in the missionaries’ eyes—types of medical modernity that might be presented as the social and cultural roles played by patients, converts, and nurses.

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Section: The Mission Hospitals: Producing Converts and Patientsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%