Luigi Mongeri

On dokuzuncu Yüzyıl Osmanlı İmparatorluğu’nda Bir Islahatçı ve “Şark Deliliği” Uzmanı

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ID21683641
AuthorsCihangir Gündoğdu (0000-0002-0086-0655, Istanbul Bilgi University, corresponding author)
Year2022
Publication date2022-07-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
Venuee-Şarkiyat İlmi Araştırmaları Dergisi/Journal of Oriental Scientific Research (JOSR) (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1308-9633 • E-ISSN: 1308-9633
Publishere-Sarkiyat Ilmi Arastirmalari Dergisi (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.26791/sarkiat.1112764
OpenAlexW4296366897
LanguageEN
References cited14

This article focuses on the early career of Luigi Mongeri, who was appointed as the chief physician to the Süleymaniye Mental Asylum in 1856 to treat mental illness and improve the living conditions of mentally ill patients in the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire. It focuses on Mongeri's early career in Italy, investigates his involvement in Ottoman imperial patronage networks and their subsequent effects on his career, and finally explores the reform program he implemented at Süleymaniye. While in the Ottoman Empire, Mongeri appeared as a reformist who claimed to improve the living conditions and treatment of patients by the use medical statistics, abolishing the use of shackles, etc. At the same time in Europe—and especially in France, which was one of the important centers of alienist medicine at the time— he presented himself as an expert on "oriental insanity,” a claim which gained him access to international medical circles and organizations

Art · Empire · Humanities · Insanity · Mental health · Mental illness · Mentally ill · Ottoman empire · Political science · Politics · Psychiatry · Sociology · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · History · History of Medicine Studies · Law · Psychology

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