Knowledge Commons | History of Medicine in the Middle East/North Africa | Activity https://hcommons.org/groups/history-of-medicine-in-the-middle-east-north-africa/ Activity feed for the group, History of Medicine in the Middle East/North Africa. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 02:05:40 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 c88ae88df69a31ab7012427445e005dc Martina Biondi created the doc CALL FOR PAPER - WORKSHOP: History of Health in the Maghreb. Colonial Biopolitics, Postcolonial Challenges and International Healthcare (1830-1980) in the group History of Medicine in the Middle East/North Africa https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1932890/ Sat, 25 Oct 2025 01:08:17 -0400 de359a68132ac3f05a6a3c8c8a645443 Monica H. Green deposited Why We Are Still Debating the “Origin” of the Black Death in the group History of Medicine in the Middle East/North Africa https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1886925/ Thu, 23 May 2024 03:00:26 -0400 In 1998, molecular geneticists first announced that they had retrieved fragments of the genetic material of Yersinia pestis from sites that had historically been associated with outbreaks of pestilencia. That announcement was in fact followed by a decade of debate about what constituted good methods in the emerging field of palaeogenetics.…[Read more]

]]> 0 f4c85ca375e1bf92c167dcb2da2794e5 Andrea Sinclair deposited High Times in Ancient Egypt in the group History of Medicine in the Middle East/North Africa https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1880195/ Thu, 21 Mar 2024 03:00:18 -0400 Psychoactive plants could be described as attractive topics for the disciplines of archaeology and anthropology, and equally they have been of singular interest in popular culture for decades. Perhaps because these are situated within an area that many may view as socially unacceptable, and certainly in some cultures, as illegal, they make an…[Read more]

]]> 0 4faed1747f61906fa18078730a0302c2 Monica H. Green deposited A Diabolus ex machina? On the Speed and Route of Plague’s Late Medieval Transit Across Eurasia (2023) - abstract and bibliography in the group History of Medicine in the Middle East/North Africa https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1864246/ Sun, 12 Nov 2023 03:00:04 -0500 This is the abstract and bibliography of works cited for an invited talk presented at the University of North Carolina - Greensboro on 9 November 2023. It was part of the Department of Biology's Ashby Dialogue Series, devoted to the topic "Emergent Pathogens and Globalization: Past and Present."

]]> 0 44f68964f7244aafb3d6ed342c736b65 Monica H. Green deposited Assessment of the Dating Claims of Keller et al. 2023 in the group History of Medicine in the Middle East/North Africa https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1856531/ Sat, 26 Aug 2023 01:16:08 -0400 This document lays out a series of points in regard to a recently posted pre-print on the history of plague in late medieval and early modern Europe: Marcel Keller et al., “A Refined Phylochronology of the Second Plague Pandemic in Western Eurasia.” I am a historian of medicine and I am presenting these as historical questions. I have written it…[Read more]

]]> 0 054296fd1e88d0eaaff7a74644d37ddb Monica H. Green deposited Shifting Paradigms in Black Death Chronologies in the group History of Medicine in the Middle East/North Africa https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1847393/ Sat, 27 May 2023 03:32:54 -0400 This blogpost summarizes findings presented at a talk at Erfurt University on 16 May 2023, in the series KFG “Religion and Urbanity: Reciprocal Formation,” Global Exchange: Trade, Knowledge, and Religion. In this blogpost we present our key argument that rigorous correlation between archaeological, genomic, and documentary evidence dem…[Read more]

]]> 0 2cd8673ba1f91ecfb18c3fa944aa879a Christopher S. Rose deposited Trial by Virus: Colonial Medicine and the 1883 Cholera in Egypt in the group History of Medicine in the Middle East/North Africa https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1841914/ Wed, 19 Apr 2023 02:24:14 -0400 This article explores how public health was transformed in Egypt soon after its occupation by Great Britain in 1882. Over the course of the nineteenth century, the Egyptian state had invested substantially in health to boost the nation’s economic and military strength, and, especially after the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869, to address E…[Read more]

]]> 0 c365d6e3b0cb74a4b6aa8c9c284459cf Monica H. Green deposited A New Definition of the Black Death: Genetic Findings and Historical Interpretations in the group History of Medicine in the Middle East/North Africa https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1829517/ Fri, 13 Jan 2023 02:24:40 -0500 The field of infectious disease history has been transformed in the past decade in large part because of fortuitous developments in several adjacent fields, most importantly genetics. The medieval period (ca. 500 to ca. 1500) has proved particularly important for these developments, not simply because it is now the earliest period from which whole…[Read more]

]]> 0 434996d2ff12e12489f284065714873f Christopher S. Rose deposited Implications of the Spanish Influenza Pandemic (1918–1920) for the History of Early Twentieth-Century Egypt in the group History of Medicine in the Middle East/North Africa https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1760214/ Wed, 01 Dec 2021 02:24:11 -0500 The “Spanish influenza” pandemic that struck Egypt in fall 1918 resulted in the death of eleven out of every one thousand people. Despite the mass suffering caused by the pandemic, it has been largely ignored by historians. I describe how the Egyptian public health service was unprepared for a major health crisis because resources were red…[Read more]

]]> 0 d55882cd0513ad9d413aa9e34ceb8872 Christopher S. Rose deposited Food, Hunger, and Rebellion: Egypt in World War I and its Aftermath in the group History of Medicine in the Middle East/North Africa https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1750088/ Thu, 26 Aug 2021 02:27:28 -0400 Over two percent of the Egyptian population perished during World War I due to starvation, malnutrition, and disease. Although technically neutral, Egypt was the staging ground for British and Dominion troops fighting the campaign against the Ottoman Empire. The prioritization of military needs led to government recruitment of civilian…[Read more]

]]> 0 343536594b80ac4e305aca060c8ad1d9 Christopher S. Rose edited the post CFP: "Social Histories of Disease, Medicine, and Healing in the Modern ME/NA" in the group History of Medicine in the Middle East/North Africa https://histmedmena.hcommons.org/2021/02/25/cfp-social-histories-of-disease-medicine-and-healing-in-the-modern-me-na/ Tue, 25 May 2021 14:07:20 -0400 Call for Chapters for inclusion in an edited volume on

“Social Histories of Disease, Medicine, and Healing
in the Modern Middle East & North Africa”

What can the study of disease, medicine, healing, and public health in the Middle East and North Africa since 1750 reveal about the region's history?

Editors: Stephanie Anne Boyle, New Yor…[Read more]

]]> 73436ed9f0abb4e75d2c45623a3a7a06 Christopher S. Rose wrote a new post CFP: Researching Women in the Middle East - historical perspectives on health and gender in the group History of Medicine in the Middle East/North Africa https://histmedmena.hcommons.org/2021/04/03/cfp-researching-women-in-the-middle-east-historical-perspectives-on-health-and-gender/ Sat, 03 Apr 2021 14:20:58 -0400 Call for papers for the third annual conference of the Women Historians’ Forum
Researching women in the Middle East
Historical perspectives on health and gender
Online - Tuesday, July 6, 2021
The Women H […]

]]> 2864b5eb3f86c937789dba28f6bce1a3 Christopher S. Rose edited the post HistMed MENA Zotero Group in the group History of Medicine in the Middle East/North Africa https://histmedmena.hcommons.org/2021/03/25/zotero-group/ Fri, 26 Mar 2021 15:33:14 -0400 Are you a Zotero user? (and if not, why not?)

We've set up a shared Zotero group--join and contribute your entries, and let's create a shared bibliography detailing the history of medicine in the Middle East and North Africa!

Read on for description and instructions.


What It Is
Screenshot of zotero library

The collection is a library of books, journal…[Read more]

]]> 1750b6ddfa0009e9b79182643e2ba27f Christopher S. Rose wrote a new post CFP: Special Issue “(New) Histories of Science, in and beyond Modern Europe” in the group History of Medicine in the Middle East/North Africa https://histmedmena.hcommons.org/2021/03/08/cfp-special-issue-new-histories-of-science-in-and-beyond-modern-europe/ Mon, 08 Mar 2021 19:26:00 -0500 Journal: Histories
Special Issue Title: (New) Histories of Science, in and beyond Modern Europe
Special Issue Editors: Volker Remmert, Dania Achermann, Cécile Stephanie Stehrenberger, Fabian L […]

]]> eaebaafcac62fccfd10dd78d106dcd6c Christopher S. Rose wrote a new post CFP: Scandalous Feasts and Holy Meals: Food in Medieval and Early Modern Societies (12th-18th centuries) in the group History of Medicine in the Middle East/North Africa https://histmedmena.hcommons.org/2021/03/08/cfp-scandalous-feasts-and-holy-meals-food-in-medieval-and-early-modern-societies-12th-18th-centuries/ Mon, 08 Mar 2021 19:23:49 -0500 2nd EUI Conference in Visual and Material Culture Studies
Scandalous Feasts and Holy Meals: Food in Medieval and Early Modern Societies (12th-18th centuries)
25th May 2021
European University In […]

]]> a561ffff5da2e3baa668afac91c15f6b Christopher S. Rose edited the post CFP: Gendered and Sexual Aging in the History and Culture of Medicine in the group History of Medicine in the Middle East/North Africa https://histmedmena.hcommons.org/2021/02/26/cfp-gendered-and-sexual-aging-in-the-history-and-culture-of-medicine/ Fri, 26 Feb 2021 20:36:02 -0500 Contributions are invited for a special edition of a high-quality interdisciplinary journal on the topic of “Gendered and Sexual Aging in the History and Culture of Medicine”. This special edition forms part of the grant activities of Associate Professor Alison M. Downham Moore in the Australian Research Council Discovery pro…[Read more]

]]> ddef9691292b36231b69fea1822d7fa8 Christopher S. Rose wrote a new post CFP: Trauma and Nightmare, 4th International Interdisciplinary Conference in the group History of Medicine in the Middle East/North Africa https://histmedmena.hcommons.org/2021/02/26/cfp-trauma-and-nightmare-4th-international-interdisciplinary-conference/ Fri, 26 Feb 2021 20:10:10 -0500 March 18, 2021 to March 19, 2021

Scientific Committee:
Professor Wojciech Owczarski – University of Gdańsk, Poland
Professor Paulo Endo – University of São Paulo, Brazil […]

]]> 6005de3eb5fc33302ff4cad6bedc0f85 Christopher S. Rose edited the post CFP: “Bring Out Your Dead”: Visions of Pandemics Past, Present and Future in Literature and the Arts in the group History of Medicine in the Middle East/North Africa https://histmedmena.hcommons.org/2021/02/25/cfp-bring-out-your-dead-visions-of-pandemics-past-present-and-future-in-literature-and-the-arts/ Thu, 25 Feb 2021 15:28:57 -0500 “Bring Out Your Dead”: Visions of Pandemics Past, Present and Future in Literature and the Arts
Abstracts due April 1, 2021
Editors Barbara Brodman and James E. Doan are seeking original essays for the sixth of a series of books on visions of the supernatural and the apocalyptic in literature and the arts. They encourage submissions from peo…[Read more]

]]> 2ec5b9ea9e74582db2648dafd4a781fa Christopher S. Rose replied to the topic New Articles in the discussion History of Medicine in the Middle East/North Africa https://hcommons.org/groups/history-of-medicine-in-the-middle-east-north-africa/forum/topic/new-articles/#post-42711 Thu, 25 Feb 2021 15:23:20 -0500 Joelle M. Abi-Rached. “Psychiatry in the Middle East: the Rebirth of Lunatic Asylums?” BJPsych International 18, no. 1 (2021): 5–8. doi:10.1192/bji.2020.22.

This article briefly assesses the historical trajectory of psychiatric institutions in the Middle East. It underlines a key observation: the persistence and expansion of psychiatric insti…[Read more]

]]> a5cf4732ec496e226fb923e8b76a365d Christopher S. Rose started the topic New Articles in the discussion History of Medicine in the Middle East/North Africa https://hcommons.org/groups/history-of-medicine-in-the-middle-east-north-africa/forum/topic/new-articles/ Wed, 24 Feb 2021 19:52:38 -0500 Found a new article of interest to the group? Post it here!

]]> c16d11411a1cc3fc4fdf5ab7a7e0935b Stephanie Boyle edited the post Welcome! in the group History of Medicine in the Middle East/North Africa https://histmedmena.hcommons.org/2021/02/24/welcome/ Wed, 24 Feb 2021 16:16:19 -0500 Welcome!

We've launched this website as a way to reach scholars from all disciplines who work on the history of medicine, disease, public health, and healing practices in the Middle East and North Africa (including Iran, Israel and its antecedents, Turkey and its antecedents, and the Arabic-speaking countries, including the Maghreb). Our…[Read more]

]]> 6503824418b4fd3840b08349f6197f0f Christopher S. Rose created the group History of Medicine in the Middle East/North Africa https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1728774/ Wed, 24 Feb 2021 15:45:36 -0500 0