Knowledge Commons | Christopher S. Rose | Activity https://hcommons.org/members/christophersrose/activity/ Activity feed for Christopher S. Rose. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:37:02 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 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 278c5c3c8a96979e1d6901c68ede015a Christopher S. Rose deposited Trial by Virus: Colonial Medicine and the 1883 Cholera in Egypt in the group History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1841913/ Wed, 19 Apr 2023 02:23:59 -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 b4b72ef17cedac16055c0504f2f4c3ba Christopher S. Rose deposited Trial by Virus: Colonial Medicine and the 1883 Cholera in Egypt in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1841912/ Wed, 19 Apr 2023 02:23:43 -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 e2cd46f1c9248f9693fe9811b25adc8b Christopher S. Rose deposited Trial by Virus: Colonial Medicine and the 1883 Cholera in Egypt in the group Digital Middle East & Islamic Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1841911/ Wed, 19 Apr 2023 02:23:38 -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 a1fce326962da733eb62204d91406fc3 Christopher S. Rose deposited Trial by Virus: Colonial Medicine and the 1883 Cholera in Egypt https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1841871/ Tue, 18 Apr 2023 06:19:16 -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 1801bfa035ad283325b0b28360f476d9 Christopher S. Rose's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1820493/ Mon, 07 Nov 2022 16:19:55 -0500 0 70730a9f61669ab37bb6d271d374d4c8 Christopher S. Rose's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1776411/ Wed, 30 Mar 2022 20:38:18 -0400 0 eb7be0d77355f36d8106837b5d0de670 Christopher S. Rose deposited Implications of the Spanish Influenza Pandemic (1918–1920) for the History of Early Twentieth-Century Egypt in the group Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1760215/ Wed, 01 Dec 2021 02:24:12 -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 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 79d480b315303fa3ca1dddade4774b42 Christopher S. Rose deposited Implications of the Spanish Influenza Pandemic (1918–1920) for the History of Early Twentieth-Century Egypt in the group History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1760213/ Wed, 01 Dec 2021 02:23:58 -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 9a242565c51d6f4f48d654861462501d Christopher S. Rose deposited Implications of the Spanish Influenza Pandemic (1918–1920) for the History of Early Twentieth-Century Egypt in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1760212/ Wed, 01 Dec 2021 02:23:39 -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 4751b00055a46a202269ad5e3ae093e0 Christopher S. Rose deposited Implications of the Spanish Influenza Pandemic (1918–1920) for the History of Early Twentieth-Century Egypt https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1760099/ Tue, 30 Nov 2021 15:06:28 -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 992c182d22bb6ea76cc3a66d4a3d9022 Christopher S. Rose deposited Food, Hunger, and Rebellion: Egypt in World War I and its Aftermath in the group History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1750087/ Thu, 26 Aug 2021 02:27:18 -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 48fa10b9e9d497cd4db57670ada10d34 Christopher S. Rose deposited Food, Hunger, and Rebellion: Egypt in World War I and its Aftermath https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1749762/ Sun, 22 Aug 2021 21:54:46 -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]

]]> cefa75506266ecdf54b4ed68a030d85e Christopher S. Rose's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1736507/ Wed, 28 Apr 2021 14:24:13 -0400 0 e34b4136fede2e5040e27b31b8b414c9 Christopher S. Rose deposited The History of Public Health in the Modern Middle East: The Environmental-Medical Turn https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1736505/ Wed, 28 Apr 2021 14:17:56 -0400 The field of Middle Eastern history began as an attempt to understand how Europeans came to dominate the region. As a result, when medicine and the environment were discussed, they were used to highlight European technological and scientific advances in these fields, and describe the processes through which Islamic medical and scientific concepts…[Read more]

]]> 0 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 […]

]]> 0a3de64c2440cbc7f677c0eb85a49d9b Christopher S. Rose edited the event A New Past for a Pandemic Future: Evolutionary and Cultural Histories of Infectious Diseases in the group History of Medicine in the Middle East/North Africa https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1730470/ Sun, 07 Mar 2021 23:46:11 -0500 0 95236e9c685a66e94051e14b510a7770 Christopher S. Rose created the event Corpse Traffic in Ottoman Iraq & the Birth of Global Public Health in the group History of Medicine in the Middle East/North Africa https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1729597/ Mon, 01 Mar 2021 21:14:18 -0500 Title: Corpse Traffic in Ottoman Iraq & the Birth of Global Public Health

Description:

Caravan of Death: Corpse Traffic in 19th-Century Ottoman Iraq & the Birth of Global Public Health
Speaker: Zeinab Azarbadegan, PhD Candidate, Columbia University

Discussant: Shana Minkin, Associate Professor & Chair of International and Global St…[Read more]

]]> 0 3c29a8073f56d11a7d7c28e0fe1cb537 Christopher S. Rose created the event A New Past for a Pandemic Future: Evolutionary and Cultural Histories of Infectious Diseases in the group History of Medicine in the Middle East/North Africa https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1729367/ Sat, 27 Feb 2021 22:20:19 -0500 Title: A New Past for a Pandemic Future: Evolutionary and Cultural Histories of Infectious Diseases

Description: Centre for History in Public Health Annual Lecture
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Featuring Monica H Green, Ph.D.
March 16, 2021
17:30 London
12:30 New York

Infectious diseases are understood now to be caused by…[Read more]

]]> 0 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 […]

]]> a0c59bfb1ab6ea5eb7ddaa18bfad4b30 Christopher S. Rose created the event Re-Orienting Ancient Medicine Courses in the group History of Medicine in the Middle East/North Africa https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1729059/ Thu, 25 Feb 2021 21:25:35 -0500 Title: Re-Orienting Ancient Medicine Courses

Description: Re-orienting Ancient Medicine Courses 

Aileen Das (University of Michigan) and Jay Crisostomo (University of Michigan)

April 22 @ 4-5pm EST via Zoom

This pedagogy workshop is aimed at (past, current, and would-be) instructors of ancient medicine, science, and technology courses…[Read more]

]]> 0 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]

]]> 381a586619183e617bbbedd3c4b9f251 Christopher S. Rose created the event Jerba: Tracking the Impact of the So-Called Justinianic Plague, 560-750 CE in the group History of Medicine in the Middle East/North Africa https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1728847/ Wed, 24 Feb 2021 19:58:48 -0500 Title: Jerba: Tracking the Impact of the So-Called Justinianic Plague, 560-750 CE

Description: Event flier (text replicated below).

The American Institute for Maghrib Studies presents Renata Holod of the University of Pennsylvania, speaking at 6 PM Tunis time (7 PM Cairo/Istanbul, 5 PM London, 12 Noon Eastern US, 11 AM Central US, 9 AM Pacific US).

Register at: https://aimsnor…[Read more]

]]> 0 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!

]]> a532955235d299750aa77c02aa31a809 Christopher S. Rose created the event Public History Explorers: Disease and Imperialism in Egypt in the group History of Medicine in the Middle East/North Africa https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1728788/ Wed, 24 Feb 2021 16:08:40 -0500 Title: Public History Explorers: Disease and Imperialism in Egypt

Description: event description (replicated in text box below)

The International Federation for Public History is hosting a presentation by Christopher S Rose on "Disease and Imperialism in 19th Century Egypt," moderated by Joseph Stanik (US Naval Academy (retired) & Anne Arundel Community College) on March 11, 2021 at 4 pm…[Read more]

]]> 0 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 1d06fc6045bd10946331a1ad82b13f6e Christopher S. Rose's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1728401/ Mon, 22 Feb 2021 15:54:00 -0500 0 97ecd359ae00d766660f20da293f78f3 Christopher S. Rose's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1688526/ Mon, 25 May 2020 19:13:30 -0400 0