Book contents
- Palestinian Doctors
- Palestinian Doctors
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Prelude: Jerusalem, circa 1903
- 2 Class Matters: The Sociology of the Profession
- 3 Colonial Care: Understanding the Department of Health
- 4 Medical Landscapes
- 5 Conflicting Medicines and the Politicization of Health
- 6 A Republic of Medical Letters and Professional Unity
- 7 Nakba: The Displacement of the Medical Community
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
5 - Conflicting Medicines and the Politicization of Health
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 September 2025
Book contents
- Palestinian Doctors
- Palestinian Doctors
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Prelude: Jerusalem, circa 1903
- 2 Class Matters: The Sociology of the Profession
- 3 Colonial Care: Understanding the Department of Health
- 4 Medical Landscapes
- 5 Conflicting Medicines and the Politicization of Health
- 6 A Republic of Medical Letters and Professional Unity
- 7 Nakba: The Displacement of the Medical Community
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter looks at Palestinian doctors’ interactions with their Jewish counterparts as both a political and a professional rivalry. Jewish doctors treated Arab patients, and Jewish and Arab doctors worked together in government institutions, shared clinics, consulted each other, and fought common enemies of morbidity and mortality on the same land. The chapter examines Jewish-Arab interdependency and rivalry, bringing forward its articulations in the Arab and Hebrew press while underlining the effects of intercommunal violence on this encounter and attempts at direct cooperation. At the heart of this chapter is the mass migration of German-Jewish doctors to Palestine following the Nazi takeover, and the ways in which it affected relationships within the medical profession.
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- Palestinian DoctorsMedical Practice and the Transformation of Palestine, 1900–1948, pp. 147 - 177Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025
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