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HU Credits:
2
Degree/Cycle:
1st degree (Bachelor)
Responsible Department:
Islamic & Middle East Stud.
Semester:
2nd Semester
Teaching Languages:
Hebrew
Campus:
E. Safra
Course/Module Coordinator:
Liat Kozma
Coordinator Office Hours:
Teaching Staff:
Prof Liat Kozma
Course/Module description:
The course will examine th history of public health, medicine and disease in the Middle East and North Africa in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It will examine how political processes (such as the demise of the Ottoman Empire, colonial occupations and the foundation of nation states), epidemics, migrations and scientific breakthroughs affected health and sanitation in our region
Course/Module aims:
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
Understanding how modern medicine reached the region
Understanding Israeli medicine in its historical and regional context
Attendance requirements(%):
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
Course/Module Content:
1. Introduction: Definitions
2. Medicine, state and empire: Cairo and Istanbul
3. Medical Education: Beirut
4. The Missionary Hospitals
5. Medicine in the urban space: Jerusalem
6. Colonial Medicine: North Africa
7. Dealing with epidemics: Cholera
8. Endemic diseases: bilharzia, trachoma and malaria
9. The nursing profession: Christian, Jewish and Arab nurses
10. The medical profession: the revival of the medical profession in the nation state
11. Palestinian medicine during the Mandate
12. The establishment of the Hebrew University School of Medicine
13. Summary
Required Reading:
1. Introduction and terminology
2. State medicine and imperial medicine: Cairo and Istanbul
Fahmy, Khaled. “Medicine and Power: Towards a Social History of Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Egypt.” In New Frontiers in the Social History of the Middle East. Ed. Enid Hill, 15–62. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2001.
3. Medical education, Beirut
Farag, Nadia. 1972. "The Lewis Affair and the Fortunes of al-Muqtataf," Middle Eastern Studies, 8: 73-84.
4. The Missionary Hospitals
פרי, ירון. 2002. "לקורות בית החולים הבריטי בצפת," קתדרה: לתולדות ארץ-ישראל וישובה 103: 84-70.
5. Medicine and the city: Jerusalem
שווקה, נורברט. 2010. "תולדות הרפואה בירושלים בתקופה העות'מאנית המאוחרת." ספר ירושלים בשלהי התקופה העות'מאנית בעריכת ישראל ברטל וחיים גורן. ירושלים: יד בן צבי, 300-283.
6.Colonial Medicine: North Africa
Thoral, Marie-Cecile. “Colonial Medical Encounters in the Nineteenth Century: The French Campaigns in Egypt, Saint Domingue and Algeria.” Social History of Medicine 25 (2012): 608–24..
7. Dealing with epidemics: Cholera
בר-אל, דן וזלמן גרינברג, 2006. "חולי וכולרה בטבריה במלחמת העולם הראשונה." קתדרה: לתולדות ארץ-ישראל וישובה 120: 182-161.
8. Endemic diseases: bilharzia, trachoma and malaria
גרינברג, זלמן ורקפת זלשיק, 2009. "מסע משלחת חבר הלאומים לחקירת המלריה בארץ-ישראל בשנת 1925." קתדרה: לתולדות ארץ-ישראל וישובה 134: 64-49.
9.The nursing profession: Christian, Jewish and Arab nurses
Krik, Hagit. “The Female Imperial Agent and the Intricacies of Power: British Nurses in Mandate Palestine.” JMEWS: Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies 18 (2022): 12–35.
10. The medical profession: the revival of the medical profession in the nation state
Farhan, Sara. “Women Doctors and the Medical Profession in Iraq during the First Half of the Twentieth Century.” JMEWS: Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies 18 (2022): 59–80.
11. Palestinian medicine during the Mandate
Kozma, Liat, and Yoni Furas. “Palestinian Doctors under the British Mandate: The Formation of a Profession.” International Journal of Middle East Studies 52 (2020): 87–108.
12. The establishment of the Hebrew University School of Medicine
בני נוריאלי וליאת קוזמא, 2023. "'מעין אריסטוקרציה': בית הספר לרפואה וניהול קאדר הרופאים בישראל," בתוך יפעת וייס ועוזי רבהון, עורכים, תולדות האוניברסיטה העברית, 1967-1948, ירושלים: מגנס.
13. Conclusion
Additional Reading Material:
Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 90 %
Presentation 0 %
Participation in Tutorials 0 %
Project work 10 %
Assignments 0 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 0 %
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