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" Oculists in the Orient: A History of Trachoma, Zionism, and Global Health, 1882-1973 "
Anat Mooreville
Stein, Sarah A.
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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803698
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TL48497
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1732170238; 3724873
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Hayes, Edmund
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Oculists in the Orient: A History of Trachoma, Zionism, and Global Health, 1882-1973\ Anat MoorevilleStein, Sarah A.
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University of California, Los Angeles
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2015
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Ph.D.
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History
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2015
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267
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Committee members: Gelvin, James L.; Landecker, Hannah; Myers, David N.; de Chadarevian, Soraya
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-339-08601-9
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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.
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History; Science history; Judaic studies
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Social sciences;Disease;History of medicine;Israel;Palestine;Trachoma;Transnational
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Stein, Sarah A.
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HistoryUniversity of California, Los Angeles
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