Gender and the making of modern medicine in colonial Egypt / Hibba Abugideiri.

Farnham, Surrey : Ashgate, [2010], ©2010.

xii, 268 pages ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction, Egyptian gender, medicine, and nationalism -- Muhammad Ali's Egypt : the rise of modern medicine -- Colonizing Egyptian education : creating an Anglo-Egyptian civil service -- Anglicizing state medicine : the rebirth of Qasr al-Aini -- Hakimas, dayas, and the state : displacing women in the name of modern medicine -- A modern medical profession at last : the rise of the Egyptian doctor -- Egyptian doctors and domestic medicine : the forging of republican motherhood -- Conclusion, Egyptian nationalism, medicine, and the scientization of culture.