Sara Farhan is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Northern British Columbia, Canada. Trained as a social and cultural historian, her research esteems medical education, disease and diplomacy, the politics of science and technology, and archive and archive keeping. Her work has appeared in Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East; Journal of Middle Eastern Women’s Studies; British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies; Social History; Journal of Contemporary Iraq and the Arab World; Alternative Routes and Left History.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Medicine, Professional Class Formation and Social and Cultural Change in Modern IraqPart I. Centripetal Labour, Centrifugal Professions: 1869 – 1921Part I Introduction 1. The Institutionalisation of Medicine in Late Ottoman Iraq, 1869 - 19142. The Reconfiguration of the Medical Profession in Late Ottoman and British-Occupied Iraq, 1914 -1921Part II. Competing Pedagogy: 1921 - 1935Part II Introduction3. Symbolic Capital and the Production of Medical Labour, 1921 - 19274. Colonial Pedagogies and the Legal Parameters of Medical Education, 1927 - 1935Part III. “Doctors and Guerrillas”: 1932 - 1959Part III Introduction5. Pedagogies of Symbolic Violence and Professional Class-Making, 1932- 19496. Expanding Pedagogy and Competing Visions of Nationhood, 1941-1959Conclusion and Epilogical ReflectionsBibliographyAppendix

Through covering both late Ottoman and Iraqi history as well as using exceptionally rich sources including interviews, Farhan demonstrates how medicine was a contested field of empire- and (colonial) nation-building, and how physicians in Iraq became both instruments of state power and agents of resistance. A fascinating sociopolitical study relevant for historians of MENA and beyond.