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082	0	4	_a610.695092 _qOCoLC _220/eng/20231120
084			_aonline - DeGruyter
100	1		_aAllison, Mary Bruins _eautore
245	1	0	_aDoctor Mary in Arabia : _bMemoirs / _cMary Bruins Allison; ed. by Sandra J. Shaw.
264		1	_aAustin : _bUniversity of Texas Press, _c[2014]
264		4	_c1994
300			_a1 online resource (365 p.)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
347			_atext file _bPDF _2rda
505	0	0	_tFrontmatter -- _tTable of Contents -- _tPreface -- _tIntroduction -- _tTimeline of Events -- _t1. Early Life -- _t2. Medical Training -- _t3. Early Years in Kuwait -- _t4. A Real Doctor -- _t5. Medicine and Marriage -- _t6. The War Years -- _t7. Kuwait Practice Renewed, 1945 -- _t8. Questions of Mission -- _t9. Changes in the Mission Field, 1958 -- _t10. Bahrain -- _t11. Oman -- _tStatistics and Hospital Data
506	0		_arestricted access _uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec _fonline access with authorization _2star
520			_aUntil 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.
538			_aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546			_aIn English.
588	0		_aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Aug 2024)
650		7	_aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General. _2bisacsh
700	1		_aSaunders, John Clarke _eautore
700	1		_aSaunders, Lucie Wood _eautore
700	1		_aShaw, Sandra J. _ecuratore
850			_aIT-RoAPU
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.7560/704541
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780292763197
856	4	2	_3Cover _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780292763197/original
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