Palestinian doctors in the mandate period: A social history of relationships

Special lecture by Prof. Liat Kozma.

In the framework of the seminar A history of Late Modern Palestine: before and beyond the conflict (1840-1948).

The Palestinian medical profession emerged during the late Ottoman and mandate periods as a result of social, economic, and educational dynamics within an imperial, colonial, and settler-colonial context. This lecture will explore how the profession evolved within a complex web of relationships: within the Palestinian elite and an emerging middle class, between urban Palestinian society and its hinterland, between this professional group and the British colonial administration, and between Palestinian medical practitioners and their Jewish counterparts. In the absence of a pre-state infrastructure, the profession‘s development depended on regional, national, and localized networks.

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