Gender, Sickness, And Healing In Rural Egypt: Ethnography In Historical Context (Conflict and Social Change)

The Dynamics Of Sickness And Healing Are Examined In Terms Of Male-female Power Relations In This Study Of An Egyptian Village. Soheir Morsy Goes Beyond An Account Of Gender Dynamics In A Culturally Embedded Medical Discourse By Putting Her Cases Of Compromised Health In The Context Of The Local Social Structure And Ideology And Linking Them With State Policies Since The Nasser Era. Gender, Sickness, And Healing In Rural Egypt Gives Us A Unique Glimpse Into An Arab Construction Of Illness And Gender In A Period Of Tremendous Change. Ethnography In Historical Context: The Embeddedness Of Culture -- Pt. 1. The National Context In Historical Perspective. 1. State Policies, Rural Transformation, And Medicine. Nineteenth Century Egypt: From Commercial Revival To Etatism. The State, Agrarian Society, And Women. Muhammad Ali's Reforms: Medicine And Public Health. Social Transformation And The Cultural Construction Of Medicine. The State And Colonial Legacy, 1882-1952. Egypt Under Nasser: The Era Of Arab Socialism -- Pt. 2. The Local Context Of Gender Differentiation. 2. The Village Of Fatiha: An Overview. Research Setting And Data Collection. Village Dwellings, Sanitation, And Public Health Services. Local Government. Kinship, Marriage, And Friendship. The Family, Its Developmental Cycle, And Power Relations. Family Status, Religiosity; And Education. Production, Exchange, And Wealth. Gender Differentiation -- Pt. 3. Sickness And Healing: Male-female Differentiation. 3. Body Concepts: Cultural Construction And Social Mediation. Body Formation. Body Structure And Function. Body-environment Articulation. 4. Medical Taxonomy: The Centrality Of Emotions And Social Causation. Diagnostic Indices. Core Diagnostic Elements: Emotions And Social Causation. Illness Explanations In Social Context. Power Relations As Medical Discourse. Sickness And The Social Mediation Of Powerlessness. Uzr: Between Social Production And Biomedical Diagnosis. Gender, Power, And Distress. 5. Health Care: Prevention, Response To Illness, And The Social Context Of Healing. Prevention. Health Care Resources. The Hierarchy Of Resort To And Dynamics Of Treatment Choice. Healing In Social Context -- Gender And Medical Discourses In Context: A Conclusion. Soheir A. Morsy. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 213-235). The dynamics of sickness and healing are examined in terms of male-female power relations in this study of an Egyptian village. The author goes beyond an account of gender dynamics in a culturally embedded medical discourse by putting her cases of "compromised" health in the context of the local social structure and ideology and linking them with state policies since the Nasser era.