Iranian Studies, Volume 53, Issue 1-2 (2020)

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SPECIAL SECTION: MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH IN MODERN IRAN:HISTORICAL AND SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES

Editorial

Editorial
Editorial Foreword
Ali Gheissari
Pages: 1-2
Published online: 21 Feb 2020
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Consulting Editor’s Introduction

Article
Medicine and Public Health in Modern Iran: Historical and Sociological Perspectives
Amir A. Afkhami
Pages: 3-7
Published online: 21 Feb 2020
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Articles

Article
Qalʿeh-ye Mehrab Khan: The First Leprosarium in Iran
Willem Floor
Pages: 9-41
Published online: 19 Nov 2019
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Sanitized Modernity: Rural Public Health in Mid-Twentieth Century Khuzestan
Bryan Sitzes
Pages: 43-72
Published online: 05 Jul 2019
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Iran–US Public Health Cooperative Organization (PHCO): Education, Healthcare, and Health Services in the Southwest of Iran (Fars), 1950–60
Soleyman Heidari
Pages: 73-92
Published online: 03 Feb 2020
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The Integration of Mental Health Care in Rural Iran
Alex Keivahn Smith
Pages: 93-111
Published online: 23 Oct 2019
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The Journey of Infertility from Private Sphere to Public Domain: From Cosmetic Surgery to Disability
Soraya Tremayne
Pages: 113-127
Published online: 28 Oct 2019
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Performing Trans in Post-Revolutionary Iran: Gender Transitions in Islamic Law, Theatre, and Film
Emily O’Dell
Pages: 129-164
Published online: 20 May 2019
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Reviews

Book Review
Drugs Politics: Managing Disorder in the Islamic Republic of Iran
Maziyar Ghiabi, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019, ISBN 978-1108475457 (hbk), 360 pp.
Javad John Fatollahi
Pages: 165-167
Published online: 03 Feb 2020
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A Modern Contagion: Imperialism and Public Health in Iran’s Age of Cholera
Amir A. Afkhami, Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019, ISBN 978-1-4214-2721-7 (hbk), 296 pp.
Maziyar Ghiabi
Pages: 167-171
Published online: 23 Jan 2020
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Unveiling Men: Modern Masculinities in Twentieth-Century Iran (Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East)
Wendy DeSouza, Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2019, ISBN 978-0-8156-3603-8 (pbk), 183 pp.
Sean Widlake
Pages: 171-176
Published online: 31 Oct 2019
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The Iranian Metaphysicals: Explorations in Science, Islam, and the Uncanny
Alireza Doostdar, Islamic Studies and the Anthropology of Religion, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2018, ISBN 9780691163789 (pbk), 295 pp.
Arash Ghajarjazi
Pages: 176-181
Published online: 30 Jan 2019
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Book Review
Studies in the History of Medicine in Iran
Willem Floor, Washington, DC, Mage Publishers, 2018, ISBN 978-1-933823-94-2 (hbk), vxi + 210 pp.
Rudi Matthee
Pages: 181-184
Published online: 03 Jul 2019
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Sarāghāz-e Pezeshkinegāri-ye Matbuʿāti, be Enzemām-e Nashriyeh-hā-ye Tebbi-ye Iran Zamāneh-ye Qajar (Beginnings of Medical Journalism in Iran: Medical Periodicals in the Qajar period)
Sayyed Farid Qāsemi (ed.), Qom and Tehran: Nashr-e Movarrekh in collaboration with Tehran University Central Library and Documentation Center, 1398 (2019), ISBN 879–022-0066-54- 2, Paperback (National Library Registration: 5975144), 225 pp.
Ali Gheissari
Pages: 185-200
Published online: 03 Feb 2020
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Primary Sources, Archival Notes

Article
Mortality Matters: Sources on Population Health and Mortality during the First World War in Iran
Amir A. Afkhami
Pages: 201-221
Published online: 03 Feb 2020
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Regular Articles

A Yezidi Manuscript:—Mišūr of P’īr Sīnī Bahrī/P’īr Sīnī Dārānī, Its Study and Critical Analysis
Dimitri Pirbari, Nodar Mossaki & Mirza Sileman Yezdin
Pages: 223-257
Published online: 19 Nov 2019
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The Yezidi Wednesday and the Music of the Spheres
Artur Rodziewicz
Pages: 259-293
Published online: 28 Oct 2019
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Primary Sources, Archival Notes

Article
The Orthographic Rules of the Eighteenth Century Armeno-Persian Gospels of the Matenadaran (Ms. 8492, Ms. 3044)
Hasmik Kirakosian
Pages: 295-330
Published online: 25 Oct 2019
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In Memoriam

Obituary
Gianroberto Scarcia (11 March 1933—1 July 2018), Italian Iranologist
Simone Cristoforetti & Maziyar Ghiabi
Pages: 331-336
Published online: 03 Feb 2020
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Obituary
David Morgan (1945–2019), Professor of Medieval Iran and Middle Eastern History
Molly Patterson
Pages: 337-338
Published online: 03 Feb 2020
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Recent Titles in Iranian Studies

Brief Report
Recent Titles in Iranian Studies
Ali Gheissari
Pages: 339-346
Published online: 24 Jan 2020
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