Hibba Abugideiri, Gender and the Making of Modern Medicine in Colonial Egypt, Famham: Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 2010. Pp. ix + 268. ￡ 60. ISBN 978 0 7546 6720 9.

摘要

Hibba Abugideiri's Gender and the Making of Modern Medicine in Colonial Egypt is an informative, well-researched book detailing the changing medical field in Egypt from the time of Mehmed Ali's regime through British colonial rule (1820s-1930s). Abugideiri situates her work within the fields of medical, colonial, Egyptian and gender history. She argues that medicine was intrinsically linked to state formation and state power by Mehmed Ali, the British and, eventually, nationalist doctors. In this way, she explores how the evolving understandings of gender roles led to new gender formations both within the medical field and burgeoning Egyptian nationalism.