Doctor Mary in Arabia

Name: Doctor Mary in Arabia
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The memoir of a medical missionary who worked in the Middle East from the 1930s to the 1970s.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Introduction
Timeline of Events
1. Early Life
- Earliest Memories
- Milwaukee Childhood
- Pella, Iowa, and Adolescence
- Central College
- Graduation and My First Job
2. Medical Training
- The Woman’ s Medical College of Pennsylvania
- Internships
3. Early Years in Kuwait
- Getting There
- A New Life
- Coming Out in Kuwaiti Society
- Kuwait City
- Mission History
- Dr. Mylrea
- Living with Mary Van Pelt
- Weddings
- My First Case
- Under the Knife
- Home
- Mistake
4. A Real Doctor
- Practicing Medicine in Kuwait, 1936
- Cases in the Early Years
- Trachoma
- The Summer’ s Heat
- Expectations and Disappointments
5. Medicine and Marriage
- The Way of a Man with a Maid
- Scotland to Kuwait, Overland— 1939
- Back to Work!
- A New Hospital, a New Nurse
- Cases
- Ayisha, and My Other Patients
- Spring
- With Norman in India
6. The War Years
- Back to the U. S. A. , January 1942
- Divorce
- The Dahanu Road Mission Hospital (India)
- Monsoon
- Asked Back
7. Kuwait Practice Renewed, 1945
- New Faces
- New Cases
- New Problems
- Four Months at Qatar, 1948
- Changes and Obstetrics in Kuwait
- Oman, 1949
- Running the Show in Kuwait
- Slaves
- To U. S. A. on Furlough, 1950
- Kuwait Builds, 1951
- Cars and Schools
- Kuwaiti Women’ s Lives and Health in the 1950s
- The Morning Clinic
- Kuwait Women’ s Medical Report to the Board— October 1954
8. Questions of Mission
- A Question of Mission
- Kuwait Hosts the Annual Mission Meeting, 1955
- Shirley and the Shaikh
- Kuwait Internationalizes
- Ramadan and Clinics, 1954
- Converts
- Another Question of Mission: Air-Conditioners
- Mission 1955– 1956
- The Board Reassesses the Missions
- Applying the Board’ s Suggestions
- Iraq’ s Threat; Kuwait’ s Growth
- A New View of Islam
9. Changes in the Mission Field, 1958
- Back to the Mission
- Fresh Recruits
- The Sixties in Kuwait
- My Brother, Paul Bruins
- Times of Sorrow
- Furlough, 1964– 1965
10. Bahrain
- Bahrain’ s Historical Background
- Mission in Bahrain
- Cases
- The Closing of Kuwait’ s Medical Mission, March 1967
- Interlude in Oman, 1968
- Back to Bahrain, Fall 1968
- Vacation in Kuwait, 1968
- Bahrain, 1970
- Back to the U. S. A.
- The Way Back: Bahrain’ s New Church
11. Oman
- Oman, 1971
- Historical Background of Oman
- The Mutrah Hospital
- The Mutrah Morning Clinic
- Malaria
- Cholera
- Leprosy
- Tazeea for Dr. Wells Thoms, October 1971
- Diversions, 1972
- Travels in Oman, October and November 1972
- Kuwait Revisited
- My Last Year
- Return to Dahanu Road
- Cholera Epidemic
- Turnover
Statistics and Hospital Data
- Annual Reports of the Kuwait Women’ s Hospital to the Mission Board in New York
- American Mission Hospital— Kuwait
- Bahrain Attendance Records for Eleven Months of 1969
- Oman Mission Hospitals— Statistics, June 1 to Dec. 31, 1971
- Mutrah, Oman: Hospital Statistics, 1973
- Muscat, Oman: Assaada Hospital Statistics, 1973

Produktdetails

Erscheinungsdatum

01. Januar 1994

Sprache

englisch

Seitenanzahl

368

Reihe

University of Texas Press

Autor/Autorin

Mary Bruins Allison

Herausgegeben von

Sandra Shaw

Verlag/Hersteller

Univ of Chicago behalf of University of Texas

Produktart

kartoniert

Gewicht

581 g

Größe (L/B/H)

229/153/25 mm

ISBN

9780292704565

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Mary Bruins Allison

Mary Bruins Allison (1903– 1994) spent four decades working as a missionary physician in the Middle East.

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