Hibba Abugideiri, Villanova University
Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania
Time: 12:00 p.m.
Place: 2U Conference Room, Room 2019, Claire Fagin Hall
Information: nhistory@nursing.upenn.edu or 215-898-4502
Abstract: This paper/presentation explains the biomedical practices that colonial Egyptians newly adopted from their British mentors - from their conceptualization of woman's body as medically problematic to their justifications for legal medical interventions, most dramatically demonstrated by doctors' exclusive use of forceps and gynecological surgeries. It also explains other parallel socio-historical developments like the rise of the modern Egyptian doctor and the establishment of the new field of nursing, both of which came at the expense of Egyptian midwives.