I\u2019m a Teaching Professor in the Medicine, Science, and the Humanities program. Trained in political theory, political philosophy and intellectual history, I work on the question of justice at the intersection of history, political theory, and science, technology and medicine studies. Growing up in Cairo, surrounded by both medicine and political activism, I later became interested in understanding how medical professionals\u2019 political leanings shape their medical practice and how their medical expertise and practice shape, in turn, their political and social choices. I also became particularly interested in gender studies and postcolonial studies. After receiving a BS from Cairo University, I went on to do my graduate studies in France (Sciences Po Paris) and conducted research in Italy and Germany. Before teaching at Hopkins, I taught at Harvard\u2019s Department of the History of Science between 2011 and 2021.<\/p>"],"ecpt_research":["
With a focus on medicine and public health, my research addresses the questions of health and social justice, biomedical ethics, and the medicine-politics nexus, with a geographical focus on the Middle East and a special interest in postcolonial and gender studies. My research interests focus on medical expertise and how it is deployed in different political contexts. In this framework, I focus on gender and race as important contributors to the fashioning of the medical profession and as key determinants of health and access to medical care. I am currently finishing a book manuscript (co-authored with Sherine Hamdy, UC Irvine, in preparation with Stanford University Press) on the roles played by doctors in revolutionary and post-revolutionary Egypt, and working on another book project on the social roles of doctors in postcolonial Egypt. I am editor of the Journal of Middle East Women\u2019s Studies (JMEWS) and associate editor of the Journal of Islamic and Muslim Studies (JIMS).<\/p>"],"ecpt_teaching":["
In addition to teaching courses on the history of medicine and public health, the medical humanities, and gender and sexuality, I have also taught courses in European and American intellectual history, as well as the intellectual history of the modern and contemporary Middle East, with a focus on gender and feminist writing and activism. Examples of courses taught include:<\/p>\r\n
In Preparation:<\/strong><\/p>\r\n \"A Noble Profession?\u201d The Social Roles of Doctors in Postcolonial Egypt - Bayoumi, Soha, and Sherine Hamdy. Doctors of the Revolution: Medicine and Politics in the Egyptian Uprising.<\/p>\r\n Under Review:<\/strong><\/p>\r\n \u201cColonizing and Decolonizing Medicine in Egypt,\u201d in Beth Baron and Jeffrey Culang (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Modern Egypt, Oxford University Press. - With Sherine Hamdy, \u201cNationalism, Authoritarianism, and Medical Mobilization in Post-Revolutionary Egypt,\u201d Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry.<\/p>\r\n 2020<\/strong><\/p>\r\n Bayoumi, Soha. \u201cGender, Sexuality, and the Politics of Writing History in the Middle East: Interview with Afsaneh Najmabadi.\u201d Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 16, no. 2 (2020): 213-226.<\/p>\r\n 2016<\/strong><\/p>\r\n Bayoumi, Soha. \u201cHealth and Social Justice in Egypt: Towards a Health Equity Perspective.\u201d In World Social Science Report 2016, Challenging Inequalities: Pathways to a Just World. Paris: UNESCO Publishing, 2016.<\/p>\r\n 2015<\/strong><\/p>\r\n Hamdy, Sherine F., and Soha Bayoumi. \u201cEgypt\u2019s Popular Uprising and the Stakes of Medical Neutrality.\u201d Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (2015).<\/p>\r\n 2014<\/strong><\/p>\r\n \u201cMr. Darwin Goes to the Middle East: Review of of Reading Darwin in Arabic, 1860-1950, by Marwa Elshakry.\u201d Endeavour 38, no. 3-4 (2014): 149. Bayoumi, Soha, and Sherine Hamdy. \u201cDoctors of the Revolution.\u201d Cosmologics, 2014.<\/p>"],"_wp_old_date":["2021-07-20"],"_thumbnail_id":["531"],"ecpt_cv":[""],"_ecpt_cv":["field_61e0871dac8e2"],"cv_file":[""],"_cv_file":["field_61e088d12999e"],"ecpt_job_abstract":[""],"_ecpt_job_abstract":["field_61e0873bac8e3"],"abstract_file":[""],"_abstract_file":["field_61e088f52999f"],"ecpt_hours_link":["https:\/\/calendly.com\/sbayoumi\/officehours"],"ecpt_pronoun":["she\/her\/hers"]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/msh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/people\/528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/msh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/msh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/people"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/msh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/people\/528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":530,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/msh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/people\/528\/revisions\/530"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/msh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/msh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"role","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/msh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/role?post=528"},{"taxonomy":"filter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/msh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/filter?post=528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}