Book contents
- Night on Earth
- Human Rights in History
- Night on Earth
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Note on the Text
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 A Loose Configuration of Humanitarian Actors
- 2 From Repatriation to Resettlement of Ottoman Armenians
- 3 The Near East Relief
- 4 The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
- 5 Relief and Rehabilitation in Transcaucasia, 1919–1929
- 6 The American Red Cross in Jerusalem and Palestine, 1918–1921
- 7 International Humanitarian Actors in Beirut, Aleppo, and Cilicia
- 8 The Revealing History of an Allied Fact-Finding Mission in the Sea of Marmara and a Lone Delegate of the International Committee of the Red Cross
- 9 International Humanitarian Operations in Greece before and after the Summer of 1922
- 10 Rehabilitation without Relief
- 11 The American Women’s Hospitals from Macronissi Quarantine Island to Public Health Work
- 12 Modernization, Technical Assistance and Development avant la lettre
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
11 - The American Women’s Hospitals from Macronissi Quarantine Island to Public Health Work
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 December 2021
- Night on Earth
- Human Rights in History
- Night on Earth
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Note on the Text
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 A Loose Configuration of Humanitarian Actors
- 2 From Repatriation to Resettlement of Ottoman Armenians
- 3 The Near East Relief
- 4 The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
- 5 Relief and Rehabilitation in Transcaucasia, 1919–1929
- 6 The American Red Cross in Jerusalem and Palestine, 1918–1921
- 7 International Humanitarian Actors in Beirut, Aleppo, and Cilicia
- 8 The Revealing History of an Allied Fact-Finding Mission in the Sea of Marmara and a Lone Delegate of the International Committee of the Red Cross
- 9 International Humanitarian Operations in Greece before and after the Summer of 1922
- 10 Rehabilitation without Relief
- 11 The American Women’s Hospitals from Macronissi Quarantine Island to Public Health Work
- 12 Modernization, Technical Assistance and Development avant la lettre
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The American Women’s Hospitals was an all-women, all-physician, all-American organization. These women, as civilizational and racist as their male colleagues, were brave to the point of setting up a quarantine island in Macronissi. They continued health relief and public health work up until the late 1930s. Their work is little-known and adds a gender dimension to the interwar humanitarianism, which is sometimes forgotten by historians.
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- Night on EarthA History of International Humanitarianism in the Near East, 1918–1930, pp. 273 - 288Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021