A talk by Shireen Hamza (Northwestern University)
WEDNSDAY January 24, 2:30pm, 3647 Peel Street SSOM Seminar Room 101
Social Studies of Medicine, the Department of Anthropology and the Institute of Islamic Studies present:
Masculinities shape intimacy, and vice versa. Across the medieval Islamic world, authors of medical texts could draw knowledge from multiple epistemic traditions. Often, their choices were shaped by which authorities they felt closest to and sought to emulate in their lives as well as their medical practice. Focusing on the regions surrounding the western Indian Ocean, I show how physicians and ulema were just as interested in how medical authorities lived as they were in what they knew. Their interest in these ancient and contemporary medical men helped them shape their own notion of an appropriate medical masculinity.
Shireen Hamza is a historian and artist, and an educator with the Prison & Neighborhood Arts/Education Project (PNAP). She continues her research on the history of medicine in the medieval Islamic world through a postdoctoral fellowship at Northwestern University.
Dr. Hamza is also leading a discussion seminar on masculinity in the premodern Islamic World on TUESDAY, January 23rd, 9:00-11:30amm write to setrag.manoukian@mcgill.ca for the pre-circulated reading.
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