Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. List of Illustrations viii
4. Acknowledgements x
5. Introduction: Medicine, Professional Class Formation and Social and Cultural Change in Modern Iraq
6. Doctored Horizons and Cultural Representations of the Doctor in Modern Iraq 1
7. Modern Iraq’s Medical Professionals 10
8. Historicising Medical Professionalisation 13
9. Archives and Beyond 23
10. On Structure and Organisation 24
11. PART I CENTRIPETAL LABOUR, CENTRIFUGAL PROFESSIONS: 1869–1921
12. Part I Introduction
13. 1 The Institutionalisation of Medicine in Late Ottoman Iraq, 1869–1914
14. Centripetal Education 31
15. Health Services in Ottoman Iraq 43
16. From Trades to Professions: Cultural Capital and Non-accredited Medical Labour 54
17. Nationalism and Political Dissidence in Medical Education 57
18. Beyond Istanbul: An Imperial Medical College for the Peripheries 62
19. Conclusion 73
20. 2 The Reconfiguration of the Medical Profession in Late Ottoman and British-Occupied Iraq, 1914–1921
21. Introduction 76
22. World War One 79
23. Medical Labour and Colonial Agendas 82
24. Science, Eugenics and Class Distinction: Child Mortality as Social Panic 86
25. Statistical Conflation of Venereal Disease Increased child mortality rates and the ensuing social 96
26. British Pedagogical Authority during the Mandate 100
27. Conclusion 104
28. PART II COMPETING PEDAGOGIES: 1921–1935
29. Part II Introduction
30. 3 Symbolic Capital and the Production of Medical Labour, 1921–1927
31. The Baghdad Medical Society and the Rise of Medical Syndicates 114
32. Contriving a Medical College 121
33. College Interrupted 125
34. The Tongue of Empire: Symbolic Violence and Language Requirements 130
35. Regulating Medical Practice: Doctor Shortages and Labour Influx 135
36. Medico-legal Frameworks 139
37. Probationary Years 146
38. Al al-Bayt University and the General Student Strike of 1927 149
39. Conclusion 154
40. 4 Colonial Pedagogies and the Legal Parameters of Medical Education, 1927–1935
41. The Scientification of Society: Economic and Cultural Investments 158
42. The Inauguration of the Royal Medical College of Iraq Colonial Medical Pedagogy 166
43. Colonial Medical Pedagogy 170
44. Legislating Pedagogical Authority 176
45. Gatekeeping the Field: Admissions and Entrance Examinations The Limits of Pedagogical Authority 182
46. Conclusion 202
47. Part III ‘DOCTORS AND GUERRILLAS’: 1932–1959
48. Part III Introduction
49. 5 Pedagogies of Symbolic Violence and Professional Class-Making, 1932–1949
50. Student Body: Class, Gender and Nationalism 211
51. The Minority Quotient 219
52. Misrecognition and Resistance 225
53. ‘Apolitical’ Remedies: The 1935 Medical Student Strike 233
54. The Politics of ‘Apoliticism’ 238
55. Medical Pedagogy and Public Health: Colonial Legacies and Eugenic Discourses 246
56. The Hakubian Report 251
57. The Financial Burdens of Medical Education 257
58. Conclusion 263
59. 6 Expanding Pedagogy and Competing Visions of Nationhood, 1941–1959 Medical Students and the 1941 Coup Forensic Medicine and Pedagogical Authority
60. Medical Students in al-Wathba 276
61. Anti-colonial Medical Discourse 284
62. Sahat al-Sibaʿ Congress 287
63. Medicine, Ministry and Revolution: The College of Mosul and the 1958 Revolution 291
64. Conclusion 301
65. Conclusion and Epilogical Reflections 304
66. BIBLIOGRAPHY 316
67. INDEX 338