History of Infectious Disease in the Islamicate World

"What’s in a Name?: Selfhood in Physicians’ Reports covering Ottoman Iraq" 
Hande Yalnızoğlu 
 
This presentation will focus on the reports of William H. Colvill, physician at the British Embassy in Baghdad, on the plague outbreak in Ottoman Iraq, close to the town of Karbala, in 1867. Searching for the native voice in his texts in order to uncover the intricacies of translating and establishing medical knowledge on plague, it ends up seeking to answer a very simple question: why did Colvill record the cases he was told about with their full names?