Söyleşi · Sanat & Kültür
A 'Modern' Doctor in the Late Ottoman Empire: İbrahim Bey of the Hamidiye Etfal Hospital
20 Ekim 2026, Salı · 13:00 · SOS 103, Sarıyer, İstanbul
- Tarih
- 20 Ekim 2026, Salı · 13:00
- Yer
- SOS 103, Sarıyer, İstanbul
- Düzenleyen
- Koç Üniversitesi
Etkinlik hakkında
Abstract:
In an age when the sick still went to the barber to have their pulse taken, and the professional physicians tried to maintain a position in the medical market, what did it mean to be a diplomaed, “modern” doctor? Doctor İbrahim Bey (1861–c. 1923) spent his life inside that question. Trained in the laboratories of Germany, he became chief physician of the Hamidiye Etfal, the children’s hospital that Abdülhamid II built and gave his name to, and rose from plain İbrahim Bey to İbrahim Paşa. When the sultan was deposed, he “fell” with him, and İbrahim Paşa was İbrahim Bey once more. And then, pen in hand, he set about creating himself again.
Through his hitherto untranscribed diaries, the hospital’s official yearbooks, related newspaper pieces and the state archives, this talk will present a glimpse into the process of a diplomaed professional’s making himself in the crowded and underpaid medical market of the late-19 th century Ottoman Empire.
Presenter bio:
Cahit Atıl Öder completed his BA and MA in the History Department at Boğaziçi University and is now pursuing his PhD in the History Department at Koç University. His main research interest lies in the social history of the Late Ottoman Empire. Combining the history of medicine and environmental history, he explores how medical and veterinary expertise was developed and challenged amid epidemics and epizootics and with the rise of bacteriology.
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