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The tale of two professions Author(s):
Djavad Salehi-Isfahani
Position:
Professor of Economics at Virginia Tech
October 1851, when Darolfonoon opened its doors to its first class of medical students, is as good a date as any to mark the beginning of the successful diffusion of modern medicine in Iran. Over the next hundred years, ordinary Iranians replaced their faith in healers with doctors and abandoned folk for modern medicine. Thus Iranians pa... |