POLITICS & HEALTH IN IRAN: STUDY OF RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MEDICINE & POLITICS IN CONTEMPORARY IRAN

Politics as a new concept in Iran is a subject that has involved various classes، statifications & groups. It has embraced different areas of Iranians’ living. For existing researches have studied classes، Iilat & some groups in Iran’s political sociology، this research studies a group that political literature don’t give pay attention to that or belong on social history and very hard to study its political behavior. However the main question of the present essay is studding of political behavior of doctors of medicine & presence of them as interest group in & on Iran’s politics. Generally، the presence of medicine (doctors) in politics environment have been because of new developments in politics، social status، attention of society to them & some accidents، the luck of the game. The presence in new politics of Iran has been started in Qajar era. The most feature of the period was use of medical concepts for general understanding of political concepts in Iran. In the first Pahlavid، medicine tried to influence on politics & did not participate in that. In the time، medicine was a new job and an instrument for modernization. Medicine tried to introduce itself as necessary job with a high level in the society of Iran. In the 1940- 1980 decade، they participated in politics as prime minister، minister، MP & opposition. The essay tries to explain the hypothesis with statistical indicators to show relationship between medicine & politics. On the whole، medicine couldn’t affect politics similar to engineers.