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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (2): 318–320.
Published: 01 July 2017
...Edna Bonhomme Medicine and Morality in Egypt: Gender and Sexuality in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century . Gadelrab Sherry Sayed . London : Tauris , 2016 . 216 pages. isbn 9781780767512. Copyright © 2017 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2017...
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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 (2015) 11 (3): 283–305.
Published: 01 November 2015
... with a focus on the impact of European medicine and redefinitions of evidence and expertise. Through case studies drawn from judicial archives and published jurisprudence, this study traces the paradoxical effects of colonial medicalization on Muslim women’s divorce based on forced or failed consummation...
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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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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (1): 12–35.
Published: 01 March 2022
... at the lower strata of British colonial society. Nurses’ tales thus offer a unique perspective for investigating colonial power relations and the intersections of medicine, gender, race, and class. 26. ONA Annual Report 1940, 3, ONAA, box 131. 27. See n. 11. 28. Department of Health, Annual...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (1): 36–58.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Lydia Wytenbroek Abstract In the first half of the twentieth century, American missionary nurses, working under the auspices of the Presbyterian Mission to Iran, established areas of educational innovation within mission medicine and Iranian health care. Drawing on Presbyterian mission records...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (1): 59–80.
Published: 01 March 2022
..., as official and domestic duties are not always easily combined.” Despite Iraqi women’s struggle to gain an equal footing in medicine as doctors, throughout the first half of the twentieth century the colonial foundation on which the profession was restructured rendered their participation either ancillary...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (2): 222–243.
Published: 01 July 2017
...: Belsoğukluğunave Frengiye Yakalanmamak Çaresi (Protection from Venereal Diseases: Prevention Methods for Syphilis and Gonorrhea), by Nur Rıza . Istanbul : Matbaa-i Ahmed İhsan . Amster Ellen J. 2013 . Medicine and the Saints: Science, Islam, and the Colonial Encounter in Morocco, 1877–1956...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (1): 105–133.
Published: 01 March 2022
... and targeted primary health care with a mixed technology of biomedicine and Chinese medicine. Starting from Saïda, the Chinese mission quickly spread to other parts of Algeria, to Morocco in 1975, and elsewhere across the continent. Although international politics have since transformed greatly and China’s...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (1): 147–149.
Published: 01 March 2022
..., to provoke, and to anger but also to listen, to teach, and to learn. “At one time in history,” they wrote, physicians who practiced medicine were also psychologists, musicians, writers, poets, sculptors or philosophers. The dichotomies between science and art, the body and the mind, practice...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (2): 311–319.
Published: 01 July 2022
... 13 , no. 3 : 193 – 209 . 4. Other studies have also referred to the link between the notions of social value and respect and medicine (Barone 2006 ; Helkama et al. 2003 ). 3. All the names in both studies are pseudonyms. 2. All participants left Iran during their adulthood...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (1): 162–165.
Published: 01 March 2022
.... And in no medical school is anything taught about the clitoris, its function. Nowhere! EA: Even foreign doctors? NES: Even in America, even in Europe. If you open books on anatomy, on physiology, they never say anything about the clitoris. As if the clitoris did not exist! They discuss the uterus because medicine...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (1): 108–111.
Published: 01 March 2009
..., development, medicine, and race in the Arab and Islamic world
and beyond.
We Have No Microbes Here:
Healing Practices in a Turkish Black Sea Village
Sylvia Wing Önder. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2007.
Pp. xxv, 304. ISBN 978-0-89089-573...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (2): 252–254.
Published: 01 July 2018
.... Article 9 criminalizes the habitual practice of debauchery ( al-iʿtiyad ʿala mumarasat al-fujur ). Prosecutors often refer defendants to the Forensic Medicine Authority, where they are compelled to undergo anal exams to “prove” whether they have “been recently penetrated from behind” ( mustakhdam min...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (3): 116–118.
Published: 01 November 2011
... prominent forms of
sexual discourse in the Ottoman world. Chapter 1 traces the basic theo-
ries and concepts of traditional Ottoman medicine as they relate to the
sexual and asexual body. Humoral medicine with its Galenic roots was
the sole model that enjoyed the official support...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (2): 1–28.
Published: 01 July 2008
... are expected to seek solutions to their suff ering, for God is believed
to have created science and medicine for this purpose (Inhorn 1994;
2003b). Th e Islamic approach to biomedicine rewards perseverance and
suggests that pursuing one’s goals will ultimately lead to positive medical
outcomes (Molock...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (3): 291–316.
Published: 01 November 2023
... to access new careers in medicine, trade, and journalism (Elshakry 2007 : 181). Indeed, although the SPC’s student body remained majority Christian and all male until the 1920s, the Protestant educational network offered relatively broad opportunities for social mobility, funneling students from villages...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (3): 62–86.
Published: 01 November 2014
... the world of medicine and Islam in the Middle East, including
the fascinating domain of “Islamic bioethics” (Brockopp and Eich 2008,
Clarke 2009). My University of Oxford colleague, Soraya Tremayne,
and I have recently published an edited collection on Islam and Assisted
Reproductive...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (3): 343–347.
Published: 01 November 2018
..., Lebanon, and Morocco. While Foster and Wynn combine training in medicine, anthropology, Middle East studies, and health policy, the contributing authors are largely health practitioners not necessarily oriented toward theorizing the useful information provided in each chapter. EC pills were first...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (3): 139–144.
Published: 01 November 2005
... the division by tracing historical and contemporary con-
struction of the division; she off ers the dominant discourse, examples
contradicting this discourse, and the usually weak minority denial of
diff erence.
Th e fourth chapter demonstrates how science and medicine act
as strong...
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