Hidden Curriculum and Politicization of Medical Students in the Late Ottoman Empire

Rasimoglu C. G. I.

JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE AND ALLIED SCIENCES, cilt.77, sa.1, ss.81-107, 2022 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 77 Sayı: 1
  • Basım Tarihi: 2022
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1093/jhmas/jrab043
  • Dergi Adı: JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE AND ALLIED SCIENCES
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus, Academic Search Premier, Periodicals Index Online, L'Année philologique, American History and Life, EMBASE, Historical Abstracts, Index Islamicus, MEDLINE, MLA - Modern Language Association Database, Social services abstracts, Sociological abstracts, DIALNET
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.81-107
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: medical education, Ottoman medicine, medicine in the late Ottoman Empire, nineteenth-century doctors, medical professions, medicine and politics, CITY
  • Acıbadem Mehmet Ali Aydınlar Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

This article discusses the effect of medical education on politicization during the late Ottoman period. The article focuses on the nineteenth-century emergence of the epistemological and etiological shift in medicine on a global scale, which led to the dominance of the modernization paradigm in the environment of the Military School of Medicine in Istanbul. The ideas favoring modernization and progressivism became widespread through partnerships and differences between the two generations of physicians represented by the periods of Tanzimat (1839-1876) and Abdulhamid II (1876-1909). Based on the narratives of prominent physicians of the late Ottoman and Early Republican Turkey, the article aims to illustrate that all the activities in the school resulted in the gradual transformation of the perspective of the students in contrast to their professors, interpreting the concept of progress as an effective basis to assist the modern aspirations of the administrative elites, composing the hidden curriculum of modern medical education in the Ottoman context. The younger generation began to equate materialism with solidarity, political activism, and insurgency, which would finally enable them to lead the movement against the monarchy or sultan. This generation would also occupy leading administrative positions in the first decades of the new Turkish Republic.