Traveling Oculists in Israel/Palestine | Anat Mooreville

E138 | Medicine is not merely a practice that takes place in hospitals, clinics, and laboratories. It also involves the movement and operation of medical practitioners in different social spaces. In this episode, Anat Mooreville discusses traveling doctors in Israel/Palestine and their role not only in combating trachoma (a severe eye disease that causes blindness) but also as ethnographers and go-betweens within the framework of a Zionist national project. - See more at: http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2013/12/trachoma-medicine-doctors-israel-palestine.html#sthash.RfG7UFFP.dpuf