Parution : Sara Farhan, Medical Education and the Making of Iraqi Doctors, 1869-1959, Edinburgh University Press, 2025
Medical Education and the Making of Iraqi Doctors, 1869-1959
Sara Farhan
Charts doctors and students as reformers, bureaucrats and subjects of social and cultural forces
- Delves into a hundred years of history to offer the first English monograph on the history of medical education in the modern Middle East
- Focuses particularly on Iraq, a sensational yet highly understudied region
- Situates social history in the emergence of medical institutions in late Ottoman, British occupied and mandated, as well as Monarchic and early Republican Iraq
- An extensively researched study that highlights a wealth of rarely consulted sources gathered from fourteen archives, family collections, medical journals, student newspapers, film, and oral interviews
This book offers a rigorous social and cultural history of the formation of medical professionals in modern Iraq and their role in shaping public health institutions. Tracing developments from late Ottoman medical reforms to the establishment of the Medical College of Mosul, the book examines the institutionalisation of medical education as a critical element of the social transformation of Iraq. It reveals how shifting imperial, colonial and national frameworks sought to cultivate a cadre of physicians who would serve state and society. These experts, however, often found themselves navigating competing ideological imperatives.
This extensively researched study highlights a wealth of rarely consulted sources gathered from 14 archives, family collections, medical journals, student newspapers, film and oral interviews. Drawing on these materials, it interrogates the contradictions inherent in state-driven efforts, wherein doctors functioned as agents of reform and subjects of bureaucratic oversight. Through this, Sara Farhan reveals the nexus between medical pedagogy, professional authority, public health policy and the broader political transformations that continually redefined medicine in Iraq.
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