The transformation of health care in modern Iranian history
essay 1981 Good, Byron J.

IranMiddle East > Middle East
This paper analyzes the transformation of health care in Iran since the mid-nineteeth century. It criticizes the diffusionist model commonly employed for the analysis of medical change and briefly outlines an alternative approach. It analyzes the rel...

Ritual, the state, and the transformation of emotional discourse in Iranian society
article 1988 Good, Mary-Jo DelVecchio & Good, Byron J.

IranMiddle East > Middle East
The Goods examine the culture of sadness that has engulfed revolutionary Iran. The Shi'ite passion play, the TA'ZIEH, with its underlying and highly emotional appeal for social justice, served the Moslem clerics well in bringing about the downfall of...