Disorder and Diagnosis
Health and the Politics of Everyday Life in Modern Arabia
- Editore:
Stanford University Press
- EAN:
9781503638174
- ISBN:
1503638170
- Pagine:
- 264
- Formato:
- Hardback
- Lingua:
- Inglese
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Descrizione Disorder and Diagnosis
Disorder and Diagnosis offers a social and political history of medicine, disease, and public health in the Persian Gulf from the late nineteenth century until the 1973 oil boom. Foregrounding the everyday practices of Gulf residents-hospital patients, quarantined passengers, women migrant nurses, and others too often excluded from histories of this region-Laura Frances Goffman demonstrates how the Gulf and its Arabian hinterland served as a buffer zone between "diseased" India and white Europe, as a space of scientific translation, and, ultimately, as an object of development.
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