Health and Zionism: The Israeli Health Care System, 1948–1960

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Notes

1 Dan Barel, Ruah ra'ah: Magefot ha-kholerah ve-hitpathut ha-refu'ah be-Eretz Yisrael be-shalhei ha-tkufah ha-otmanit (An ill wind: Cholera epidemics and medical development in Palestine in the late Ottoman period) (Jerusalem: Bialik Institute, 2010).

2 For example, Dafna Hirsch, “‘We Are Here to Bring the West, Not Only to Ourselves’: Zionist Occidentalism and the Discourse of Hygiene in Mandate Palestine,” International Journal of Middle East Studies 41 (2009): 577–94; Rakefet Zalashik, Ad nafesh: Mehagrim, olim, plitim veha-mimsad ha-psikhi'atri be-Yisrael (Refugees, immigrants, newcomers and the Israeli psychiatric establishment) (Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 2008).

3 Yifat Rosenman, “Hityahasut ha-mimsad ha-politi, ha-refu'i veha-mishpati el holei ha-nefesh bi-shnot ha-50 be-Yisrael” (Madness in the fifties in Israel), Ph.D. diss., Bar-Ilan University, 2010.

4 Nadav Davidovitch and Avital Margalit, “Public Health, Racial Tensions, and Body Politic: Mass Ringworm Irradiation in Israel, 1949–1960,” Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 36 (2008): 522–29.

5 Rhona D. Seidelman, “Shaar Haaliya: Contagion, Aliya and Quarantine during Israel's Mass Immigration, 1949–1956” (Ph.D. diss., Ben-Gurion University, 2008).

6 See Bruno Latour, We Have Never Been Modern, trans. Catherine Porter (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993), 3–8.