@article {3180818, title = {Medicine and Arabic Literary Production in the Ottoman Empire during the Nineteenth Century}, journal = {The British Journal for the History of Science}, volume = {55}, year = {2022}, pages = {515-524}, abstract = {

The selection of nineteenth-century Arabic texts on medical education, medicine and health demonstrates the significant link between the revival of the Arabic language and literary culture of the nineteenth century, known as the\ nahda, and the introduction of medical education to the Ottoman Empire. These include doctor Ibrahim al-Najjar{\textquoteright}s autobiographical account of his studies in Cairo (1855), an article by doctor Amin Abi Khatir advising on the health and care of infants (1877), questions and answers in the major popular Arabic journals\ al-Hilal\ and\ al-Muqtataf\ (1877{\textendash}1901) and an article about a new tuberculosis treatment by doctor Anisa Sayba{\textquoteleft}a (1903). Taken together they contribute to our understanding of the bottom-up production, reproduction and reception of global scientific knowledge, as well as to a social and intellectual history of science. We argue that the engagement with science during the\ nahda\ was a multi-vocal and dialogical process, in which doctors and patients, journal editors and their readers, negotiated the implications of scientific knowledge for their own lives and their own society. The texts of the original documents and their translations can be found in the supplementary material tab at\ https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007087422000413.

}, url = {https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/british-journal-for-the-history-of-science/article/medicine-and-arabic-literary-production-in-the-ottoman-empire-during-the-nineteenth-century/9EDBADC6DFE673E6B47C37672ABD4E0F}, author = {Nicole Khayat and Liat Kozma} } @article {3180821, title = {Gendered Struggles over the Medical Profession in the Modern Middle East and North Africa}, journal = {Journal of Middle East Women{\textquoteright}s Studies}, volume = {18}, year = {2022}, pages = {1-11}, 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 histories of female medical practitioners by looking at case studies spanning the twentieth century from Algeria, Palestine, Israel, Iran, and Iraq. The introduction to this issue offers an overview of existing scholarship and charts sources and directions for future research and historical actors yet to be studied. The articles examine microlevel contact zones, in which women{\textquoteright}s agency shaped and was shaped by colonial and postcolonial encounters, decolonization, and the formation of national professions. They reveal tensions within the medical sphere, between men and women, foreign and local, colonizer and colonized.

}, url = {https://read.dukeupress.edu/jmews/article/18/1/1/294382/Gendered-Struggles-over-the-Medical-Profession-in}, author = {Liat Kozma and Nicole Khayat} } @article {3180820, title = {Why Don\&$\#$39;t You Go to Nursing School? The Hebrew University Medical School as a Gendered Experience, 1950-1970}, journal = {Journal of Middle East Women{\textquoteright}s Studies}, volume = {18}, year = {2022}, pages = {81{\textendash}104}, abstract = {

The article analyzes the gendered experience at Hebrew University Medical School in its first two decades, 1950{\textendash}70. Contrary to earlier studies on women in medicine, which focused on immigrant doctors to late Ottoman and mandatory Palestine, gendering the future cadre of doctors in post-1948 Israel has not been discussed. Based on archival documents, newspapers of the period, and interviews with the school{\textquoteright}s graduates, the article argues that the school maintained a consistent though informal quota policy, which also differentiated between country-born and immigrant students. It examines students{\textquoteright} interactions with the school, beginning with their decision to apply for medical school and going through the interview process, the experience of student life, and their attempts to balance medical school with marriage and motherhood.

}, url = {https://read.dukeupress.edu/jmews/article-abstract/18/1/81/294373/Why-Don-t-You-Go-to-Nursing-School-Hebrew}, author = {Liat Kozma and Benny Nuriely} } @article {3180819, title = {The Beersheba Experiment and the Medical Field in Israel, 1974-1981}, journal = {Korot}, volume = {25}, year = {2022}, pages = {247-277}, author = {Michael Alkan and Benny Nuriely and Liat Kozma} } @inbook {3180825, title = {Regional Careers: Doctors\&$\#$39; Mobility across the New Frontiers of the Interwar Middle East}, booktitle = {Borders, Boundaries and Belonging in Post-Ottoman Space in the Interwar Period}, year = {2022}, pages = {158-181}, publisher = {Brill}, organization = {Brill}, address = {Leiden}, url = {https://brill.com/edcollchap/book/9789004529908/BP000017.xml?language=en}, author = {Liat Kozma} }