Making Medicines in Africa: The Political Economy of Industrializing for Local Health (International Political Economy Series) Hibba Abugideiri Summary Gender and the Making of Modern Medicine in Colonial Egypt investigates the use of medicine as a 'tool of empire' to serve the state building process in Egypt by the British colonial administration. Gender and the Making of Modern Medicine in Colonial Egypt investigates the use of medicine as a 'tool of empire' to serve the state building process in Egypt by the British colonial administration. It argues that the colonial state effectively transformed Egyptian medical practice and medical knowledge in ways that were decidedly gendered. On the one hand, women medical professionals who had once trained as 'doctresses' (hakimas) were now restricted in their medical training and therefore saw their social status decline despite colonial modernity's promise of progress. On the other hand, the introduction of colonial medicine gendered Egyptian medicine in ways that privileged men and masculinity. Far from being totalized colonial subjects, Egyptian doctors paradoxically reappropriated aspects of Victorian science to forge an anticolonial nationalist discourse premised on the Egyptian woman as mother of the nation. By relegating Egyptian women - whether as midwives or housewives - to maternal roles in the home, colonial medicine was determinative in diminishing what control women formerly exercised over their profession, homes and bodies through its medical dictates to care for others. By interrogating how colonial medicine was constituted, Hibba Abugideiri reveals how the rise of the modern state configured the social formation of native elites in ways directly tied to the formation of modern gender identities, and gender inequalities, in colonial Egypt. Highlights Easy to enjoy: 355 pages · Paperback By Hibba Abugideiri Details ISBN: 9781137571335 Author: Hibba Abugideiri Format: Paperback Pages: 355 Language: English Publication date: 11 November 2015 Condition: Used – Very Good Rating: 0.00 About the authors Hibba Abugideiri and Maureen Mackintosh and Geoffrey Banda and Watu Wamae and Paula Tibandebage · Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan More about this book Reviews Average rating: 0.00/5 · 0 reviews This book is open access under a CC-BY license. The importance of the pharmaceutical industry in Sub-Saharan Africa, its claim to policy priority, is rooted in the vast unmet health needs of the sub-continent.
