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portada Disorder and Diagnosis: Health and the Politics of Everyday Life in Modern Arabia
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Physical Book
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Language
English
Pages
264
Format
Hardcover
ISBN13
9781503638174
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Disorder and Diagnosis: Health and the Politics of Everyday Life in Modern Arabia

Laura Frances Goffman (Author) · Stanford University Press · Hardcover

Disorder and Diagnosis: Health and the Politics of Everyday Life in Modern Arabia - Goffman, Laura Frances

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Synopsis "Disorder and Diagnosis: Health and the Politics of Everyday Life in Modern Arabia"

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. In placing health at the center of political and social change, this book weaves the Gulf and Arabian Peninsula into global circulations of commodities and movements of people. As a collection of institutions and infrastructures, pursuits of health created shifting boundaries of rule between imperial officials, indigenous elites, and local populations. As a set of practices seeking to manipulate the natural world, health policies compelled scientists and administrators to categorize fluid populations and ambiguous territorialities. And, as a discourse, health facilitated notions of racial difference, opposing native uncleanliness to white purity and hygiene, and indigenous medicine to modern science. Disorder and Diagnosis examines how Gulf residents, through their engagements with health, fiercely contested and actively shaped state and societal interactions.

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