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This paper is probing the coverage of women health and medical cases in the scientific journalism in Egypt at the second part of 19 century. The studying is probing how the western medical and health thoughts, like mental illness and madness, was transferred to Egypt, and what is the role that the scientific journalism in Egypt played to transfer these ideas to the Egyptian community. The study benefited from the feminist theory and the historical approach. The research found that the scientific Egyptian journalism that published for public audience were less influenced by the ideas of women and madness than the specialized journals that delivered for doctors. While "Yaasob El-Teb" which was published by the medicine school wasn’t influenced with these ideas. At the same time, specialized newspapers and magazines were interested in many other socio- medical issues, such as the infection with Syphilis disease underlining the role of men who are married to more than one wife in transferring the disease. Also the role of midwives in transferring infection to women during delivering. The magazines also probed the issue of the Infertility and how the society blamed women only.
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