A thread of life: Mahbub Al-Mahmud and medical modernization in early twentieth-century Morocco

Martínez, Francisco Javier (Universidad de Zaragoza)

Resumen: The medical auxiliary Mahbub al-Mahmud (Tangier, 1888–ca. 1970) remains a neglected figure in the history of Morocco’s medical modernization. However, his life and professional trajectory can provide a fruitful standpoint from which to question the persisting nationalist bias that has pervaded the modest postcolonial medical historiography about that farthest corner of North Africa. Mahbub’s multiple mobilities—temporal, social, geographical, professional—transcend the “colonial fractures” created by the complex European partition of Morocco, which have resulted in Moroccans playing no significant role in the narratives of the origin and development of modern medicine in the country. This paper is divided into three sections, each of which deals with a distinctive phase of Mahbub’s itinerary, his connections with various groups of irregular medical practitioners, and the modernizing initiatives they embodied from the times of Hassan I’s late nineteenth-century reforms to the rise of Moroccan anticolonial nationalism in the 1930s.

Idioma: Inglés

DOI: 10.1353/bhm.2022.0034

Año: 2022

Publicado en: Bulletin of the history of medicine 96, 3 (2022), 403-430
ISSN: 0007-5140

Factor impacto JCR: 1.0 (2022)

Categ. JCR: HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE rank: 19 / 61 = 0.311 (2022) - Q2 - T1
Categ. JCR: HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE rank: 22 / 48 = 0.458 (2022) - Q2 - T2
Categ. JCR: HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES rank: 105 / 106 = 0.991 (2022) - Q4 - T3

Factor impacto CITESCORE: 1.0 - Medicine (Q4) - Arts and Humanities (Q1) - Nursing (Q3)

Factor impacto SCIMAGO: 0.261 - History (Q1) - Nursing (miscellaneous) (Q3) - Medicine (miscellaneous) (Q3)

Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA/H26-17D

Tipo y forma: Article (PostPrint)

Área (Departamento): Área Historia de la Ciencia (Dpto. Ciencias Doc. Hª Ciencia)