Learned Blindness: Transforming Bedouins into Standardized Patients. Examining Health and Politics in Southern Israel

By Na’amah Razon
English

In this article I examine how Israel’s policies of inclusion and exclusion of Bedouin Arab citizens become entangled in medical care. I argue that Israeli healthcare providers construct a medicalized equality that disregards the social, political, and historical questions key to understanding health disparities in the region. This bounding of medical care permits discrimination towards Bedouin citizens to continue, while allowing healthcare providers to assert equality.

Keywords

  • Negev
  • Naqab
  • Bedouin
  • healthcare
  • equivalence
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