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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (1): 1–11.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Liat Kozma; Nicole Khayat Abstract Historians of the professionalization of medicine in colonized regions, including the Middle East, have mostly focused on male practitioners, whereas histories of women in the medical professions are mostly centered in Western societies. The present issue examines...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (2): 222–243.
Published: 01 July 2017
...Seçil Yılmaz Abstract Late Ottoman physicians used medical advice literature to impact syphilis transmission and treatment by cultivating men’s rather than women’s hygiene, self-care, and sexual practices. Soldiers and migrant workers were understood to be the main vectors of syphilis beginning...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (3): 283–305.
Published: 01 November 2015
... the newly articulated Muslim “private” sphere. These cases thus elucidate the tensions and paradoxes of colonial interventions on Algerian bodies and in Algerian bedrooms. The Native Medical Aid division (Assistance Médicale aux Indigènes) was formalized in 1903. Shortly afterward, in 1907...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (1): 59–80.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Sara Farhan Abstract This article explores the history of Iraqi women’s participation in the medical profession as accredited physicians in the first half of the twentieth century. It begins with a discussion of women’s exclusion from late Ottoman medical education faculties and their reliance...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (1): 81–104.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Liat Kozma; Benny Nuriely Abstract The article analyzes the gendered experience at Hebrew University Medical School in its first two decades, 1950–70. Contrary to earlier studies on women in medicine, which focused on immigrant doctors to late Ottoman and mandatory Palestine, gendering the future...
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Published: 01 March 2022
Figure 1. Total Hebrew University Medical School graduates compared to female graduates, 1952–79. Hebrew University Archives, graduation ceremony, 1952–79. The year 1971 is missing from the archival data.
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (1): 105–133.
Published: 01 March 2022
... and promote the image of a benevolent and responsible government in international health management. My use of medical mission and mission doctor partly follows how Algerians and Moroccans speak of the Chinese health program today: la mission médicale chinoise , a terminology borrowed by Chinese...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (2): 152–173.
Published: 01 July 2018
... Islamic societies often underestimate the nonjudgmental character of legal and medical discourse. Based on analysis of medical, lexicographical, and juridical discourse from the eighth to the eighteenth centuries, this article argues that the dominant strand of this discourse tolerated ambiguity...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (2): 31–51.
Published: 01 July 2014
...-sanctioned medico-legal procedures regarding transsexuality as it has shifted from a method of reconciling one’s gender dysphoria to a medical, legal, and religious policing of sexuality. This paper examines the evolution of Khomeini’s original fatwa to argue that the Iranian ulama are manipulating...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (1): 12–35.
Published: 01 March 2022
... experiences of British nurses in Mandate Palestine and scrutinizes their contested status. As women, as British, as medical practitioners, and specifically as nurses, British nurses present a singular type of local-level imperial agent who confronted multiple challenges to their identities. Empowered...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (3): 359–386.
Published: 01 November 2022
...—this article argues that although the objection to the medicalization of the recipients of GCS in such fatwas is mostly correct, it is not always accurate, as it is not the case in Khomeini’s fatwa. The present study, based on the legal-hermeneutical reasoning established in modern Shiʿi juristic scholarship...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (3): 62–86.
Published: 01 November 2014
... East. We very much value your impressive pioneering and important work on medical anthropology, science and reproductive technologies, the anthropology of gender, and religion in the Middle East. Your thick ethnographic accounts of the lives of men and women who struggle with infertility and how...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (2): 225–245.
Published: 01 July 2016
... processes together: trans women’s gender reassignment processes in public hospitals and gay men’s medical examinations to receive exemptions from compulsory military service. In both sites institutional observation and practice are preoccupied with penile penetration as a tool to eliminate and hence...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (3): 31–57.
Published: 01 November 2008
... not in polar opposition over family planning. Egyptian women activists, medical specialists, state officials, and American population experts formed alliances that crossed national boundaries and cut at cross purposes to promote their varied agendas. The main losers in the scramble to establish family planning...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (2): 318–320.
Published: 01 July 2017
... Medicine and Morality in Egypt is a critical examination of the history of gender, sexuality, and health in Egypt from the premodern era until the early twentieth century. Using legal, medical, and literary sources, Sherry Sayed Gadelrab investigates how religion and science were used to advocate...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (1): 147–149.
Published: 01 March 2022
... of knowledge. Medical practitioners forgot about the arts, about the mind, they forgot that the patient was a human being who could be cheered and perhaps cured by music. Medical colleges now turn out efficient, smart doctors, clever at research, at repairing a cardiac valve or replacing it. Yet, they lack...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (2): 221–223.
Published: 01 July 2015
... and Islamic contexts but also for those working on queer and feminist theory and history, psychology and psychiatry, medical and cultural anthropology, Islamic jurisprudence, and Middle Eastern studies. Expecting to encounter the Foucauldian panoptical state, Najmabadi identifies a multiplicity...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (1): 36–58.
Published: 01 March 2022
... on a New Basis,” PHS RG 144-5-4. 56. “Report of Medical Secretary and Medical Committee, 1946–1947,” PHS RG 91-8-4. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2022 nursing education nursing internationalism Iranian nationalism...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (3): 384–389.
Published: 01 November 2018
... against women seeking abortion services. A friend of hers sought an abortion because she was clinically depressed and on medication. The hospital physician requested a medical report from her treating psychiatrist that the medication could cause congenital malformations. When she did so, the same...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (3): 389–391.
Published: 01 November 2019
.... Behrouzan separates the book’s chapters with brief interstitial vignettes, a formal strategy tethering her broader ethnographic claims about the medicalization of mental illness to the specific subjectivities shaped by psychiatric discourse: “The Anthropologist,” “The Counselor,” “The Blogger,” “The Mother...
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