Doctor Mary in Arabia
Reformed Church in America
Religious Missions
Medical Missionaries
Missionaries, biography
Women physicians
Missionaries
Physicians
Missions
Personal narratives
Biography
Until fairly recently, Islamic women rarely received professional health care, since few women doctors had every practiced in Arabia and their culture forbade them from consulting male doctors. Not surprisingly, Dr. Mary Bruins Allison faced an overwhelming demand when she arrived in Kuwait in 1934 …
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