فهرست نشریات علمی دسترسی آزاد ایران

Background and Aim: Health as one of the basic needs of life has always been the focus of human’s attention, and in order to preserve it and get rid of disease, he/she has turned to medical knowledge and tried to grow and expand it. Due to the importance and position of this knowledge in the society, the Safavids also paid special attention to it. But despite numerous researches about medical knowledge in the Safavid era, the statistical analysis of the medical works has been neglected. Methods: This analytical research has studied the statistical status of medical works in the Safavid era. In order to find relatively accurate statistics of Safavid medical works, this period is briefly divided into three periods (emergence, prosperity and decline) and the scientists’ works of each period are drawn according to their bio-scientific nature, first based on numbers, then as percentages in tables and graphs. Finally the quantitative status of medical productions can be checked by showing the content production statistics according to each of the three periods. Ethical Considerations: In this research, honesty and trustworthiness have been fully observed in using historical sources and catalogs. Results: The findings show that in the Safavid era, the quantitative growth of medical knowledge was directly related to the attitude of the society and the courtiers’ policies. Therefore, by cultural, political and economic stability in the second period, the Safavids were able to achieve a quantitative growth of these works compared to the first and third periods. Conclusion: According to the curves of the graphs and the quantitative data of the tables, it is clear that whenever the social and human necessity towards medical knowledge has been seen in all cultural and civilizational pillars, we have observed a quantitative growth in the scientists’ works, and if the policy makers and the Safavid rulers did not prepare the conditions for development of medical knowledge, the index of curves in the works and compositions has been downward.