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Gender and the Making of Modern Medicine in Colonial Egypt

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Gender and the Making of Modern Medicine in Colonial Egypt book

Gender and the Making of Modern Medicine in Colonial Egypt

DOI link for Gender and the Making of Modern Medicine in Colonial Egypt

Gender and the Making of Modern Medicine in Colonial Egypt book

ByHibba Abugideiri
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2010
eBook Published 15 April 2016
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315583990
Pages 282 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315583990
SubjectsHumanities
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Abugideiri, H. (2010). Gender and the Making of Modern Medicine in Colonial Egypt. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315583990

Gender and the Making of Modern Medicine in Colonial Egypt investigates the use of medicine as a 'tool of empire' to serve the state building process in Egypt by the British colonial administration. It argues that the colonial state effectively transformed Egyptian medical practice and medical knowledge in ways that were decidedly gendered. On the one hand, women medical professionals who had once trained as 'doctresses' (hakimas) were now restricted in their medical training and therefore saw their social status decline despite colonial modernity's promise of progress. On the other hand, the introduction of colonial medicine gendered Egyptian medicine in ways that privileged men and masculinity. Far from being totalized colonial subjects, Egyptian doctors paradoxically reappropriated aspects of Victorian science to forge an anticolonial nationalist discourse premised on the Egyptian woman as mother of the nation. By relegating Egyptian women - whether as midwives or housewives - to maternal roles in the home, colonial medicine was determinative in diminishing what control women formerly exercised over their profession, homes and bodies through its medical dictates to care for others. By interrogating how colonial medicine was constituted, Hibba Abugideiri reveals how the rise of the modern state configured the social formation of native elites in ways directly tied to the formation of modern gender identities, and gender inequalities, in colonial Egypt.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|20 pages

Introduction: Egyptian Gender, Medicine, and Nationalism

chapter 2|32 pages

Muhammad Ali’s Egypt: e Rise of Modern Medicine

chapter 3|26 pages

Colonizing Egyptian Education: Creating an Anglo-Egyptian Civil Service

chapter 4|36 pages

Anglicizing State Medicine: e Rebirth of Qasr al-Aini

chapter 5|44 pages

Hakimas, Dayas, and the State: Displacing Women in the Name of Modern Medicine

chapter 6|28 pages

A Modern Medical Profession at Last: e Rise of the

ByEgyptian Doctor

chapter 7|34 pages

Egyptian Doctors and Domestic Medicine: e Forging of Republican Motherhood

chapter 8|28 pages

Conclusion: Egyptian Nationalism, Medicine, and the Scientization of Culture

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