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Patients behind the front lines: the exchange of mentally-ill patients in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War (2020)

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Medicine and government Health care Medicine and the military; medicine in war Psychiatric hospitals Patients 20th century, early Israel Palestine

The British Mandate in Palestine ended abruptly in 1948. The British departure engendered a complex situation which affected all areas of life, and the country’s health system was no exception. Gradual transition of the infrastructure was almost impossible owing to the ineffectiveness of the committee appointed by the United Nations. The situation was further complicated by the outbreak of the Arab–Israeli War. We relate for the first time the story of 75 Jewish patients who were left in a former British mental hospital in Bethlehem – deep behind the front lines. Despite the hostilities, there were complex negotiations about relocating those patients. This episode sheds light on the Jewish and Arab relationship as it pertained to mental institutions during and immediately after the British Mandate.

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Authors & Contributors
Coleborne, Catharine
Stambolis, Barbara
Farquharson, Jennifer
Kerk, Martje aan de
Puar, Jaspar K.
Heilbronner, Oded
Journals
History of Psychiatry
Social History of Medicine
Canadian Journal of Health History/Revue canadienne d’histoire de la santé
Science in Context
Medizinhistorisches Journal
Llull: Revista de la Sociedad Española de Historia de las Ciencias y de las Técnicas
Publishers
University of Portsmouth (United Kingdom
University of California, San Diego
Routledge
Duke University Press
Concepts
Psychiatric hospitals
Patients
Mental disorders and diseases
Health care
Medicine and the military; medicine in war
Psychiatry
People
Pasteur, Louis
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
20th century, late
20th century
18th century
21st century
Places
Israel
Palestine
Great Britain
Germany
New Zealand
Australia
Institutions
Maudsley Hospital (England)
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