Gender and the making of modern medicine in colonial Egypt
By: Hibba Abugideiri.
Series: Empires and the making of the modern world, 1650-2000; Empires and the making of the modern world, 1650-2000
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780754667209
Subjects: Medicine -- Egypt -- History -- 19th century; Medicine -- Egypt -- History -- 20th century; Women in medicine -- Egypt -- History -- 19th century; Women in medicine -- Egypt -- History -- 20th century; History of Medicine -- Egypt; History of Medicine -- Great Britain; Colonialism -- history -- Egypt; Colonialism -- history -- Great Britain; History, Modern 1601- -- Egypt; History, Modern 1601- -- Great Britain; Politics -- Egypt; Politics -- Great Britain; Women's Health -- history -- Egypt; Women's Health -- history -- Great Britain; Women's Rights -- history -- Egypt; Women's Rights -- history -- Great Britain; Egypt -- History -- British occupation, 1882-1936
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction, Egyptian gender, medicine, and nationalism; title: Muhammad Ali's Egypt : the rise of modern medicine; title: Colonizing Egyptian education : creating an Anglo-Egyptian civil service; title: Anglicizing state medicine : the rebirth of Qasr al-Aini; title: Hakimas, dayas, and the state : displacing women in the name of modern medicine; title: A modern medical profession at last : the rise of the Egyptian doctor; title: Egyptian doctors and domestic medicine : the forging of republican motherhood; title: Conclusion, Egyptian nationalism, medicine, and the scientization of culture.