Medical Education and the Making of Iraqi Doctors, 1869-1959 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781399553285)

This book offers a rigorous social and cultural history of the formation of medical professionals in modern Iraq and their role in shaping public health institutions. Tracing developments from late Ottoman medical reforms to the establishment of the Medical College of Mosul, the book examines the institutionalisation of medical education as a critical element of the social transformation of Iraq. It reveals how shifting imperial, colonial and national frameworks sought to cultivate a cadre of physicians who would serve state and society. These experts, however, often found themselves navigating competing ideological imperatives.

This extensively researched study highlights a wealth of rarely consulted sources gathered from 14 archives, family collections, medical journals, student newspapers, film and oral interviews. Drawing on these materials, it interrogates the contradictions inherent in state-driven efforts, wherein doctors functioned as agents of reform and subjects of bureaucratic oversight. Through this, Sara Farhan reveals the nexus between medical pedagogy, professional authority, public health policy and the broader political transformations that continually redefined medicine in Iraq.

Author: Sara Farhan
ISBN-10: 1399553283
ISBN-13: 9781399553285
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/30/2025
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.52lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.81d