Syllabus - A regional history of the Middle East (38715)

Required Reading:
23.10.2017: Introduction
30.10.2017: Keren Abbou-Hershkovits, Ideas and Methods of Medical Treatment
Peter E. Pormann and Emilie Savage-Smith, Medieval Islamic Medicine (Edinburgh University Press/Georgetown University Press, 2007), pp. 41-79
6.11.2017: Leigh Chipman, Pharmacy and materia medica.

1. Goitein, S.D. "Druggists, pharmacists, perfumers, preparers of potions." in idem, A Mediterranean Society. Vol. II: The Community. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1971, pp. 261-272.
2. Danielle Jacquart, "Islamic Pharmacology in the Middle Ages: Theories and Substances." European Review 16 (2008): 219-227.
13.11.2017, Miri Shefer Mossensohn

Nahyan Fancy, Ahmed Ragab. The Medieval Islamic Hospital: Medicine, Religion, and Charity. New
York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Nazariyat: Journal of Islamic Philosophy and Sciences (November 2016), 137-146.
Ragab, Ahmed. The Medieval Islamic Hospital: Medicine, Religion, and Charity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. The Medieval Review 17.01.07
Ragab, Ahmed. “A Response to Nahyan Fancy’s Review Article.” Nazariyat: Journal of Islamic Philosophy and Sciences (November 2016), 125-134.
Peregrine Horden, “The Medieval Islamic Hospital,” History Today 66 (2016).

20.11.17 - Maureen Malowany, Doing Medical History in sub-Saharan Africa: from archives to interviews
Vaughan, Megan, “Healing and Curing: Issues in the Social History and Anthropology of Medicine in Africa,” Social History of Medicine 7 (1994), 283–295.
27.11.2017, Otniel Dror, Gender and bio-medicine

1. Emily Martin, "The Egg and the Sperm: How Science has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male-Female Roles," Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 16 (1991): 485-501.
2. Emily Martin, “Premenstrual Syndrome: Discipline, Work, and Anger in Late Industrial Societies," in Wyer, et al. Women, Science, and Technology (Routledge, 2001), pp. 285-298
4.12.2017 - Nadav Davidovitch, Borders, Nationalism and Health Politics
Nadav Davidovitch and Rakefet Zalashik, “Pasteur in Palestine: The Politics of the Laboratory,” Science in Context 23 (2010), 401-425.
Nadav Davidovitch and Rakefet Zalashik, “Review Essay: The social history of medicine and Israeli history: A potential dialogue,” The Journal of Israeli History 30 (2011), 83–88.

11.12.17 - TBA
18.12.2017: Tal Arbel, Mobile knowledge
David Chambers and Richard Gillespie, “Locality in the History of Science: Colonial Science, Technoscience, and Indigenous Knowledge,” Osiris, 2nd Series, Vol. 15 (2000), 221-240 (attached)
Marwa Elshakry, Reading Darwin in Arabic, 1860-1950 (Chicago University Press, 2013), selections.
1.1.2018, Benny Nuriely, Global biopolitics, the case of the Joint-OSE, 1945-1949

Bashford, Alison 2006. "Global Biopolitics and the History of World Health", The History of the Human Sciences, 19 (1): 67-88.
8.1.2018: Liat Kozma, Medical Schools

Mahfouz, Naguib, The History of Medical Education in Egypt. Cairo: Government Press, 1935.
Kalisman H., “Bursary Scholars at the American University of Beirut: Living and Practising Arab Unity. British Journal Of Middle Eastern Studies,” 42(2015), 599-617.
15.1.2018, Yevgeny Cherp, Colonial Medicine.
Vaughan, Megan, Curing their ills : colonial power and African illness. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1991, introduction.
22.1.2018, Liat Kozma, Ottoman history and the sciences

VARLIK, NÜKHET. "From "Bête Noire" to "le Mal de Constantinople": Plagues, Medicine, and the Early Modern Ottoman State." Journal Of World History 24, no. 4 (December 2013): 741-770.

19.3.2018, Liat Kozma, Regional Methodology

Kozma, Liat, Cyrus Schayegh and Avner Wishnitzer, "Introduction". In A Global Middle East: Mobility, Materiality and Culture in the Modern Age 1880-1940. Edited by Liat Kozma, Cyrus Schayegh and Avner Wishnitzer. London, IB Tauris, 2014: 1-8.
Gelvin, James L. and Nile Green, "Introduction: Global Muslims in the Age of Steam and Print". In Global Muslims in the Age of Steam and Print. Edited by James L. Gelvin and Nile Green. Berkeley: California University Press, 2014: 1-14.
26.3.2018, Nicole Khayat, What is 'Ilm? Science and the Nahda

Elizabeth Eva Johnston, " Classification and Critique of Sciences in al-Ṭahṭāwı̄’s
Takhlı̄ṣ (1834)," Middle Eastern Literatures 16: 3(2013), 282–299.
John W. Livingston, “Western Science and Educational Reform in the Thought of Shaykh Rifaa al-Tahtawi,” IJMES 28:4 (1996), 543-564.
9.4.2018, Nicole Khayat, The Louis Affair and the Syrian Protestant College
Nadia Farag, "The Lewis Affair and the Fortunes of al-Muqtataf," Middle Eastern Studies, 8(1972), 73-84.
16.4.2018, Samir Ben Layashi, Colonial medicine in North Africa

Samir Ben-Layashi, "Social, Medical, and Popular Cultural Responses to Cholera on the Two Mediterranean Banks," in Discourse and Practice of Medicine, Hygiene and Body in Morocco (1880-1912). (Unpublished PhD Dissertaion, Tel Aviv University, 2013), 68-93.
Patricia M.E. Lorcin, “Imperialism, Colonial Identity, and Race in Algeria, 1830-1870: The Role of the French Medical Corps” ISIS 90, 4 (1999): 653—679.
23.4.2018, Liat Kozma, Sexuality and mobile knowledge

Kozma, Liat. “Translating Sexology,Writing The Nation: Sexual Discourse And Practice In Hebrew And Arabic In The Late 1930s.” In Sexology And Translation: Culture And Scientific Encounters Across The Modern World, 1880-1930. Heike Bauer (ed.). Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2015.
Kozma, Liat. Global Women, Colonial Ports: Regulated Prostitution in the Interwar Middle East. Albany: SUNY Press, 2017, chapter 4.
30.4.2018, Benny Nuriely, Hybridity as a pathological hieroglyphs: The case of Ringwarm, North-Africa-Israel, 1949-1952.

Fairchild, Amy., 2006. “The Rise and Fall of the Medical Gaze: The Political Economy of Immigrant Medical Inspection in Modern America,” Science in Context 19(3), pp. 337-356.
7.5.2018, Hagit Krik, Nurses and Empire

Anne Marie Rafferty and Diana Solano, "The Rise and Demise of the Colonial Nursing Service: British Nurses in the Colonies, 1896-1966", Nursing History Review, 15, 2007
Dea Birkett, "The "White Woman's Burden" in the "White Man's Grave: The Introduction of British Nurses in Colonial West Africa", in: Western Women and Imperialism: Complicity and Resistance
21.5.2018, Mayan Lalush, the medicalization of midwivery

בר-און, יערה. רואות את הנולד: לידה ויילוד לקראת העידן המודרני. חיפה: זמורה-ביתן, 2000.
Fahmy, Khaled. "Women, Medicine and Power," in Lily Abu-Lughod (ed), Remaking Women: Feminism and Modernity in the Middle East. New Jersey, 1998.
28.5.2018, Yoni Furas, Palestinian medicine in the mandate period

Nira Reiss, “British Public Health Policy in Palestine, 1918-1947,” in Health and Disease in the Holy Land; Studies in the History and Sociology of Medicine from Ancient Times to the Present, ed. Samuel S. Kottek and Manfred Waserman (Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1996), 301–27.
Salim Tamari, “Lepers, Lunatics and Saints The Nativist Ethnography of Tawfiq Canaan and His Jerusalem Circle”, Jerusalem Quarterly, no. 20 (2004): 24–43.
4.6.2018, Ahmad Mahmoud, History of Epidemics
Rakefet Zalashik and Nadav Davidovitch, “Epidemics and Infectious Diseases in the Land of Israel, 19th-20th Centuries: Historical, Social and Political Perspectives – a Forward,” Korot 21 (2011-2012), 3-17.
Miri Shefer-Mossenson, “Communicable Disease in Ottoman Palestine: Local Thoughts and Actions,” Korot 21 (2011-2012), 19-49.
11.6.2018, Ahmad Fahoum, the Red Cross

Nadir Özbek, "Defining the Public Sphere during the Late Ottoman Empire: War, Mass Mobilization and the Young Turk Regime (1908–18)," Middle Eastern Studies, September 2007, Vol. 43, No. 5, 795 – 809.
18.6.2018, Maria Vologzhanina, Reading autobiographies.

Nelson, Cynthia. ‘‘Writing Culture, Writing Lives: Fictional Boundaries,” Auto/Biography and the Construction of Identity and Community in the Middle East (2001), pp 201-214.
Ricoeur, Paul. “Memory, Forgetfulness, and History,” Iyyun: The Jerusalem Philosophical Quarterly (1996), pp. 13-24.
25.5.2018: Conclusion