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MEDICINE AND MODERNITY IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA

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HibbaAbugideiri, Gender and the Making of Modern Medicine in Colonial Egypt (Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2011)
NarinHassan, Diagnosing Empire: Women, Medical Knowledge, and Colonial Mobility (Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2011)
RichardKeller, Colonial Madness: Psychiatry in French North Africa (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2007)

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 October 2012

Nancy Gallagher
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In recent decades historians specializing in the Middle East and North Africa have studied endemic and epidemic diseases as well as evolving medical and public health knowledge and policy to better understand major historical transformations. The study of gender and empire, class and ethnicity, and civil society and government in the determination of medical and public health policy has yielded new insights into questions of state power, colonialism, imperialism, nationalism, modernity, and globalization. Historians have asked why, when, and how Western medicine took root in Muslim societies, which had their own complex and longstanding medical traditions.

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International Journal of Middle East Studies , Volume 44 , Issue 4: Maghribi Histories in the Modern Era , November 2012 , pp. 799 - 807
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2012

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1 I previously reviewed Abugideiri's, Hibba book in American Historical Review 117 (2012): 3Google Scholar; Sandra Sufian's book in H-Levant H-Net Reviews, 2008, http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=22850; and Keller's, Richard book in International Journal of African Historical Studies 40 (2007): 534–36Google Scholar.