Jennifer L Derr
Biographic Data
| ID | 5443059 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer L Derr |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer L |
| FAMILY NAME | Derr |
| SIGNATURE | DERR J L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Cruz |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9007-5596 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Approaching the history of an Egyptian biomedicine
This piece explores the history of medicine in Egypt, the roots of an Egyptian practice of biomedicine in particular, through its historiography. In the period after World War II, the term “biomedicine” came to describe a practice of medicine defined by the close relations among clinicians, biological laboratory research, and the pharmaceutical industry in Europe and the United States. The history of medicine in Egypt and other parts of the Middl…
The Dammed Body
This essay traces the historical relationship between the construction of the Nile River and the prevalence of disease in Egypt in the long twentieth century, with an eye to the relevance of this history to other regions on the African continent impacted by the construction of large dams. Beginning in the second decade of the nineteenth century and stretching through the 1970s, the Nile River underwent a dramatic process of transformation. Two la…
Seeds of Power
Daniel A. Stolz. The Lighthouse and the Observatory
Daniel A. Stolz’s The Lighthouse and the Observatory: Islam, Science, and Empire in Late Ottoman Egypt is a history of astronomy in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Egypt. In the Islamic world, astronomy has a storied history. The significance of its calculations to matters of religious practice has lent the subject a particular importance, especially in the medieval and early modern periods. In The Lighthouse and the Observatory, Stolz tr…
The Lived Nile
Labor-Time
Beginning in the second decade of the 19th century, Egyptian agriculture began a process of transformation from basin to perennial irrigation. This shift facilitated the practice of year-round agriculture and the cultivation of summer crops including cotton whose temporalities did not match that of the annual Nile flood. One facet of the perennially irrigated landscape was an increase in the prevalence of the parasitic diseases bilharzia (schisto…
The Dirty Subject of the First World War
In 1915, soon after Egypt's entry into World War I, the British War Office sent a medical mission to Egypt to investigate the state of bilharzia infection in the country. Bilharzia, also known as schistosomiasis, ran rife among agricultural cultivators in Egypt during the 19th and early 20th centuries. The entry of British-occupied Egypt into the war, and its emergence as a battle theater, heightened fears within the British government that its s…
The Lived Nile
Labor-Time
Beginning in the second decade of the 19th century, Egyptian agriculture began a process of transformation from basin to perennial irrigation. This shift facilitated the practice of year-round agriculture and the cultivation of summer crops including cotton whose temporalities did not match that of the annual Nile flood. One facet of the perennially irrigated landscape was an increase in the prevalence of the parasitic diseases bilharzia (schisto…
The Dirty Subject of the First World War
In 1915, soon after Egypt's entry into World War I, the British War Office sent a medical mission to Egypt to investigate the state of bilharzia infection in the country. Bilharzia, also known as schistosomiasis, ran rife among agricultural cultivators in Egypt during the 19th and early 20th centuries. The entry of British-occupied Egypt into the war, and its emergence as a battle theater, heightened fears within the British government that its s…
Labor-Time
Beginning in the second decade of the 19th century, Egyptian agriculture began a process of transformation from basin to perennial irrigation. This shift facilitated the practice of year-round agriculture and the cultivation of summer crops including cotton whose temporalities did not match that of the annual Nile flood. One facet of the perennially irrigated landscape was an increase in the prevalence of the parasitic diseases bilharzia (schisto…
The Lived Nile
Seeds of Power
Daniel A. Stolz. The Lighthouse and the Observatory
Daniel A. Stolz’s The Lighthouse and the Observatory: Islam, Science, and Empire in Late Ottoman Egypt is a history of astronomy in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Egypt. In the Islamic world, astronomy has a storied history. The significance of its calculations to matters of religious practice has lent the subject a particular importance, especially in the medieval and early modern periods. In The Lighthouse and the Observatory, Stolz tr…
Approaching the history of an Egyptian biomedicine
This piece explores the history of medicine in Egypt, the roots of an Egyptian practice of biomedicine in particular, through its historiography. In the period after World War II, the term “biomedicine” came to describe a practice of medicine defined by the close relations among clinicians, biological laboratory research, and the pharmaceutical industry in Europe and the United States. The history of medicine in Egypt and other parts of the Middl…
The Dammed Body
This essay traces the historical relationship between the construction of the Nile River and the prevalence of disease in Egypt in the long twentieth century, with an eye to the relevance of this history to other regions on the African continent impacted by the construction of large dams. Beginning in the second decade of the nineteenth century and stretching through the 1970s, the Nile River underwent a dramatic process of transformation. Two la…
Archaeology (6 works) · Geography (4 works) · History (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Ancient history (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Agriculture (2 works) · Classics (2 works) · Colonialism (2 works) · Demography (2 works)