عنوان

Oculists in the Orient: A History of Trachoma, Zionism, and Global Health, 1882-1973

Number

TL48497

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انگلیسی

Title Proper

Oculists in the Orient: A History of Trachoma, Zionism, and Global Health, 1882-1973

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Anat Mooreville

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Stein, Sarah A.

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of California, Los Angeles

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2015

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

267

Text of Note

Committee members: Gelvin, James L.; Landecker, Hannah; Myers, David N.; de Chadarevian, Soraya

Text of Note

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-339-08601-9

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ph.D.

Discipline of degree

History

Body granting the degree

University of California, Los Angeles

Text preceding or following the note

2015

Text of Note

The dissertation considers how a wide range of actors-including physicians, scientists, hospitals, aid organizations, governments, and the public-understood the infectious eye disease trachoma and deemed eye health salient from political, economic, scientific and cultural perspectives in Palestine and Israel from the late nineteenth century through the 1970s. Even though the causative agent was not isolated until 1957, there was a strong consensus at the beginning of the twentieth century that poverty, unhygienic practices, and ignorance facilitated trachoma. This etiology allowed Jewish ophthalmologists to construct it as a disease that was receptive to biological, cultural, and social interventions. My dissertation explores the design and implementation of Jewish anti-trachoma efforts; how physicians produced biomedical discourses on trachoma that were entangled with cultural constructions of the Arab East; and the wide set of transnational developments and relationships that configure the story of ocular expertise in Israel.

History; Science history; Judaic studies

Subject Term

Social sciences;Disease;History of medicine;Israel;Palestine;Trachoma;Transnational

Hayes, Edmund

Stein, Sarah A.

Subdivision

History

University of California, Los Angeles

Call Number

1732170238; 3724873

Electronic name

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[Thesis]

276903

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