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Journal of Modern Turkish History, vol.19, no.39, pp.1499-1532, 2023 (ESCI)
In this study, the educational life and professional career of Hasan Mazhar Paşa, who was sent to France in 1871 for dissection training, and his translated and copyrighted works are discussed in detail. In this study based on archival documents and other first-hand sources, it is concluded that Hasan Mazhar Paşa taught dissection at the Military School of Medicine and the Civilian School of Medicine for more than forty years, translated Alexandre Jamain's French work on dissection into Turkish and published it in two volumes in 1880 and 1881 under the name İlm-i Teşrih-i Tavsifî, he then added to the chapters in the relevant work and published them in separate books, thus creating Teşrih Külliyatı, wrote and published a copyrighted work titled İlm-i Teşrih-i Topografî, and made a serious contribution to the formation of dissection literature. He also served in many professional and administrative councils, societies, and commissions, where he rendered important services. It is concluded that the place of his works in the medical literature should be determined in detail through content analysis by experts.