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 a Zionist national project.

Anat Mooreville is a doctoral candidate at UCLA studying the history of science and medicine in Israel/Palestine.

Chris Gratien is a doctoral candidate at Georgetown University studying the social and environmental history of the Ottoman Empire and the modern Middle East.

Seçil Yılmaz is a doctoral candidate at the Graduate Center-CUNY studying the history of disease, medicine, and sex in the Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey.