Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Etkinlik Kategorisi: Bilimsel Kongre / Sempozyum Organizasyonu
Etkinlik Türü: Tören
Etkinlik Organizasyonu Yılı: 2024
Katılımcı Sayısı: 75
Özet:
This documentary is based on a publication cites and summarized below.
Please cite as:Ulman YI. "The portrait of an elite, during the transformation from the Ot-toman Empire to the Turkish Republic (1861-1940)", The New History of Medicine Studies (Yeni Tıp Tarihi Arastirmalari), 2005; 9:1-27.
Having spent the first half
of his lifetime during declining years of the Ottoman Empire and the other
half, at the first reformative decades of the Turkish Republic, Besim Ömer Akalın, M.D. exemplifies very
well of a new urban elite at the turn of the 20th century, regarding
his education, formation, professional and administrative duties. He is
known of his main contributions and remarkable services in obstetrics, in
pediatrics; and also of his fundamental works for the education of
midwifery and nursing in Turkey.
He carried out several duties
at the same time such as professor at the Istanbul Medical School (Mekteb-i Tıbbiye-i Şahane - Darülfünun Tıp
Fakültesi), head of first Obstetrical clinic (Viladethane) in Turkey, leader of several associations such as
the Red Crescent Society (Hilal-i Ahmer
Cemiyeti), the Society for the Protection of Children (Himaye-i Etfal Cemiyeti), Anti-Tuberculosis Society (Verem Savaş Derneği), member of several
commissions with regards to the public sanitation and health affairs, rector
of the Istanbul University, Turkish delegate of the international medical
congresses and associations, member of Parliament, and the author of
numerous books, yearbooks and articles on the above-mentioned topics. He is
also famous for his initiative supporting women to study at the university
and also to work at the social arena.
This study deals with his activities and works
on the basis of his biography studied on archival and bibliographical
sources. The list of his complete works is annexed to the text.