The senses of cholera

Transformations of gustation and olfaction in 19th-century Iran

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ID4364554
AuthorsArash Ghajarjazi (0000-0002-5243-0091, Utrecht University, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume17
Issue1
Pages109-126
Publication date2022-01-02
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Senses and Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1745-8927 • E-ISSN: 1745-8935
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17458927.2021.2020629
OpenAlexW4214615345
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited21

In this article, I examine how Greco-Islamic and clinical medicine competed in the context of cholera epidemics in 19th-century Iran. By close-reading medical texts in this period, I sketch out this competition by focusing on how ideas about cholera prevention and treatment centered on certain understandings of the sense of smell and taste. The main argument is that while in Greco-Islamic medicine, the gustatory and olfactory experiences involving cholera and its treatment received substantial attention, in the clinical approach these experiences were methodically avoided and contained

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Argument (complex analysis · Art · Cholera · Context (archaeology · Islam · Olfaction · Period (music · Political science · Reading (process · Sketch · Taste · Computer Science · History · History of Medicine Studies · History of Science and Medicine · Law · Medicine · Neuroscience · Psychology · Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research · Internal Medicine · Virology

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