STS Circle at Harvard [image.png] Sherine Hamdy & Soha Bayoumi Brown, Anthropology & Harvard, History of Science
on "Doctors of the Revolution": Egypt's Political Uprisings and the Limits of Medical Neutrality Monday, April 7 12:15-2:00 pm Room 100F, Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street [image.png] Lunch is provided if you RSVP. Please RSVP to sts<mailto:[email protected]>@hks.harvard.edu<mailto:[email protected]> by 5pm Wednesday, April 2. Abstract: Amidst the recent political uprisings in the region, physicians and other health care workers have found themselves, willy-nilly, in the crossfire. This paper focuses on Egypt’s medics, paying special attention to how many have both appealed to and practiced medical neutrality as its own potent and contested political stance, particularly since the period of military rule following Mubarak’s removal from power. Our paper draws on interviews with key players in the doctors' strike and with physicians who served as volunteers in the field hospitals in the days of unrest and violence, including those who belong to organizations, such as “Operation: Anti-Harrassment,” “Doctors of Tahrir” and “Doctors Without Rights.” Our paper reveals how their commitment to medical neutrality put them at odds with the orders of military personnel, infuriated throngs of protestors, led to suspicion among members of the Muslim Brotherhood, and even caused divisions and fractions within their own movement. Biography: Soha Bayoumi is a Lecturer in the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University. Her research focuses on questions of justice and health and is currently working on a book manuscript entitled Are Socialists Liberal? Sherine Hamdy is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Brown University and author of Our Bodies Belong to God: Organ Transplants, Islam, and the Struggle for Human Dignity in Egypt (University of California Press, 2012). A complete list of STS Circle at Harvard events can be found on our website: http://www.hks.harvard.edu/sts/events/sts_circle/ Follow us on Facebook: STS@Harvard<http://www.facebook.com/HarvardSTS> _______________________________________________
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