Doctor Mary in Arabia : memoirs
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Doctor Mary in Arabia : memoirs
University of Texas Press, 1994
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ISBN 9780292704541
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"Dr. Mary Allison has written a fascinating book about her nearly forty years as a medical missionary in the Arabian Gulf. . . . Dr. Mary in Arabia is a valuable addition to the writings of foreigners about the Middle East. . . . Mary Allison provides detailed information on many aspects of life in the region to readers with few contemporary native sources at their disposal. . . . The fact that she is a complicated and interesting human being adds to the pleasure of reading what she has to say about her profession and the places where she practiced it." --Middle East Journal Until fairly recently, Islamic women rarely received professional health care, since few women doctors had ever practiced in Arabia and their culture forbade them from consulting male doctors. Not surprisingly, Dr. Mary Bruins Allison faced an overwhelming demand when she arrived in Kuwait in 1934 as a medical missionary of the Reformed Church of America. Over the next forty years, "Dr. Mary" treated thousands of women and children, faithfully performing the duties that seemed required of her as a Christian--to heal the sick and seek converts. These memoirs record a fascinating life. Dr. Allison briefly describes her upbringing and her professional training at Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania. She then focuses on her experiences in Kuwait, where women of all classes, including royalty, flocked to her care. In addition to describing many of her cases, Dr. Allison paints a richly detailed picture of life in Kuwait both before and after the discovery of oil transformed the country. Her recollections include invaluable details of women's lives in the Middle East during the early and mid-twentieth century. Theyadd a valuable chapter to the story of modern medicine, to the largely unsuccessful efforts of the Christian church to win converts in the Middle East, and to the opportunities and limitations that faced American women of the period. Dr. Allison also worked briefly in Bahrain, Qatar, Oman, and India, and she includes material on each country. The introduction situates her experiences in the context of Middle Eastern and medical developments of the period.
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pbk. ISBN 9780292704565
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Until fairly recently, Arab women rarely received professional health care, since few women doctors had ever practiced in Arabia and their culture forbade them from consulting male doctors. Not surprisingly, Dr. Mary Bruins Allison faced an overwhelming demand when she arrived in Kuwait in 1934 as a medical missionary of the Reformed Church of America. Over the next forty years, "Dr. Mary" treated thousands of women and children, faithfully performing the duties that seemed required of her as a Christian-to heal the sick and seek converts.
These memoirs record a fascinating life. Dr. Allison briefly describes her upbringing and her professional training at Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania. She then focuses on her experiences in Kuwait, where women of all classes, including royalty, flocked to her care. In addition to describing many of her cases, Dr. Allison paints a richly detailed picture of life in Kuwait both before and after the discovery of oil transformed the country. Her recollections include invaluable details of women's lives in the Middle East during the early and mid-twentieth century. They add a valuable chapter to the story of modern medicine, to the largely unsuccessful efforts of the Christian church to win converts in the Middle East, and to the opportunities and limitations that faced American women of the period.
Dr. Allison also worked briefly in Bahrain, Qatar, Oman, and India, and she includes material on each country. The introduction situates her experiences in the context of Middle Eastern and medical developments of the period.
目次
- Preface Introduction Timeline of Events 1. Early Life Earliest Memories Milwaukee Childhood Pella, Iowa, and Adolescence Central College Graduation and My First Job 2. Medical Training The Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania Internships 3. Early Years in Kuwait Getting There A New Life Coming Out in Kuwaiti Society Kuwait City Mission History Dr. Mylrea Living with Mary Van Pelt Weddings My First Case Under the Knife Home Mistake 4. A Real Doctor Practicing Medicine in Kuwait, 1936 Cases in the Early Years Trachoma The Summer's Heat Expectations and Disappointments 5. Medicine and Marriage The Way of a Man with a Maid Scotland to Kuwait, Overland-1939 Back to Work! A New Hospital, a New Nurse Cases Ayisha, and My Other Patients Spring With Norman in India 6. The War Years Back to the U.S.A., January 1942 Divorce The Dahanu Road Mission Hospital (India) Monsoon Asked Back 7. Kuwait Practice Renewed, 1945 New Faces New Cases New Problems Four Months at Qatar, 1948 Changes and Obstetrics in Kuwait Oman, 1949 Running the Show in Kuwait Slaves To U.S.A. on Furlough, 1950 Kuwait Builds, 1951 Cars and Schools Kuwaiti Women's Lives and Health in the 1950s The Morning Clinic Kuwait Women's Medical Report to the Board-October 1954 8. Questions of Mission A Question of Mission Kuwait Hosts the Annual Mission Meeting, 1955 Shirley and the Shaikh Kuwait Internationalizes Ramadan and Clinics, 1954 Converts Another Question of Mission: Air-Conditioners Mission 1955-1956 The Board Reassesses the Missions Applying the Board's Suggestions Iraq's Threat
- Kuwait's Growth A New View of Islam 9. Changes in the Mission Field, 1958 Back to the Mission Fresh Recruits The Sixties in Kuwait My Brother, Paul Bruins Times of Sorrow Furlough, 1964-1965 10. Bahrain Bahrain's Historical Background Mission in Bahrain Cases The Closing of Kuwait's Medical Mission, March 1967 Interlude in Oman, 1968 Back to Bahrain, Fall 1968 Vacation in Kuwait, 1968 Bahrain, 1970 Back to the U.S.A. The Way Back: Bahrain's New Church 11. Oman Oman, 1971 Historical Background of Oman The Mutrah Hospital The Mutrah Morning Clinic Malaria Cholera Leprosy Tazeea for Dr. Wells Thoms, October 1971 Diversions, 1972 Travels in Oman, October and November 1972 Kuwait Revisited My Last Year Return to Dahanu Road Cholera Epidemic Turnover Statistics and Hospital Data Annual Reports of the Kuwait Women's Hospital to the Mission Board in New York American Mission Hospital-Kuwait Bahrain Attendance Records for Eleven Months of 1969 Oman Mission Hospitals-Statistics, June 1 to Dec. 31, 1971 Mutrah, Oman: Hospital Statistics, 1973 Muscat, Oman: Assaada Hospital Statistics, 1973
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