Gender and the making of modern medicine in colonial Egypt /

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Main Author: Abugideiri, Hibba.

Format: Book

Language: English

Published: Farnham, Surrey : Ashgate, c2010.

Series: Empires and the making of the modern world, 1650-2000.

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Call Number: R653 .E4 A28 2010

Table of Contents:
  • Introduction, Egyptian gender, medicine, and nationalism
  • Muhammad Ali's Egypt : the rise of modern medicine
  • Colonizing Egyptian education : creating an Anglo-Egyptian civil service
  • Anglicizing state medicine : the rebirth of Qasr al-Aini
  • Hakimas, dayas, and the state : displacing women in the name of modern medicine
  • A modern medical profession at last : the rise of the Egyptian doctor
  • Egyptian doctors and domestic medicine : the forging of republican motherhood
  • Conclusion, Egyptian nationalism, medicine, and the scientization of culture.