TY - JOUR
T1 - Palestinian doctors under the British mandate
T2 - The formation of a profession
AU - Kozma, Liat
AU - Furas, Yoni
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Cambridge University Press 2020 0020-7438/20
PY - 2020/2/1
Y1 - 2020/2/1
N2 - During the final years of Ottoman rule and the three decades of British rule, Palestine witnessed the emergence of a community of professionally trained Palestinian Arab doctors. This study traces the evolution of the medical profession in Palestine against the background of the shifting cultural and symbolic capital of an expanding urban middle class and the educational possibilities that enabled this development. Palestinian Arab doctors are examined through a number of interconnected prisms: their activity in social, political, and professional regional networks, their modus operandi under British colonial rule, their response to Zionism and its accompanying influx of immigrant Jewish doctors, and their ability to mobilize collectively under a shared national vision.
AB - During the final years of Ottoman rule and the three decades of British rule, Palestine witnessed the emergence of a community of professionally trained Palestinian Arab doctors. This study traces the evolution of the medical profession in Palestine against the background of the shifting cultural and symbolic capital of an expanding urban middle class and the educational possibilities that enabled this development. Palestinian Arab doctors are examined through a number of interconnected prisms: their activity in social, political, and professional regional networks, their modus operandi under British colonial rule, their response to Zionism and its accompanying influx of immigrant Jewish doctors, and their ability to mobilize collectively under a shared national vision.
KW - British mandate
KW - Health care
KW - Palestine
KW - Physicians
KW - Zionism
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85080962759&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1017/S0020743819000886
DO - 10.1017/S0020743819000886
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AN - SCOPUS:85080962759
SN - 0020-7438
VL - 52
SP - 87
EP - 108
JO - International Journal of Middle East Studies
JF - International Journal of Middle East Studies
IS - 1
ER -