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Disease and Public Health in the Ottoman Empire - Document-Based Writing Prompts

This writing assignment contains 3 sets of documents (on health care, infectious diseases and official responses, and disease during times of war) on Ottoman medicine and health challenges. A variety of writing prompts are also included. 

Attachments
hospitals-treatments 1 - geography and health.pdf378.29 KB
hospitals-treatments 2 - hospitals.pdf256.63 KB
hospitals-treatments 3 - access to care.pdf183.22 KB
hospitals-treatments 4 - treatments.pdf180.25 KB
hospitals-treatments 5 - music therapy.pdf196.78 KB
hospitals-treatments 6 - preventing smallpox.pdf159.08 KB
infectious diseases 1 - trade routes.pdf147.01 KB
infectious diseases 2 - government response.pdf150.43 KB
infectious diseases 3 - pilgrimage.pdf76.53 KB
infectious diseases 4 - quarantines.pdf75.29 KB
infectious diseases 5 - cholera cartoons.pdf748.18 KB
infectious diseases 6 - ethnic cleansing Circassians.pdf131.88 KB
infectious diseases 7 - Red Crescent.pdf150.92 KB
Questions - writing prompts, discussion questions.pdf142.01 KB
War 1 - Balkan Wars cholera.pdf78.24 KB
War 2 - WWI overview.pdf373.16 KB
War 3 - Armenian genocide.pdf129.25 KB
War 4 - hospitals and supplies.pdf175.98 KB
War 5 - diary of Ihsan Turjman.pdf199.8 KB
War 6 - POW camps.pdf77.33 KB
Content Area
Geography
History
Literature/Writing
Public Health
World Region
Eastern Europe
Middle East/North Africa