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Nawal M. Nour

Nawal M. Nour is a biology topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Nawal M. Nour rather than just read about it. In short: Nawal M. Nour is an obstetrician/gynecologist who directs the Ambulatory Obstetrics Practice at the Brigham and Women's Hospital.

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Reference excerpt

Nawal M. Nour is an obstetrician/gynecologist who directs the Ambulatory Obstetrics Practice at the Brigham and Women's Hospital. Her research and practice focus on providing the right care to women who have undergone female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C), also called female circumcision, and she founded the first and only hospital center in the U.S. that focuses on the medical needs of African women who have undergone FGM/C. In 2017, she was listed in Forbes among 40 Women To Watch.

Early life Nour was born in 1966 in Khartoum, Sudan, and was raised in Egypt and England. She reports that she always had two major interests as a young woman: women's health and helping the world. As a child, she was surrounded by FGC/M but was inspired to focus her work on it by Nawal El Saadawi's book, in which Saadawi describes her own circumcision. Nour attended Brown University, and went to Harvard Medical School to get her medical degree.

Career As a medical doctor, Nour gathered a group of patients who were all women who had undergone FGM/C. She worked at Brigham and Women's hospital, and in 1999 created the African Women's Health Center, which provides holistic care to women who have been circumcised. She talks about the care they give women: "The kind of care we give is no better than any other care...We're basically physicians...who understand that there are some women out there who have been circumcised and in some ways it's not something we want to make a big deal about. We want to nurture these patients, but we don't want to ostracize them." She researches health and policy of FGM/C. Nour has developed and studied difibulation, a surgical process to alleviate some of the negative effects FGM/C has on women's health. Her work aims both to educate doctors caring for women who have been circumcised, and to eradicate FGM/C.

Awards 2003 MacArthur Fellows Program 1998-1999 Reede Scholar

Other Dr Nour joined other thought leaders at Oxford University's OAC: Breaking the Frame[works] conference at the Blavatnik School of Government. She took part initialing monumental heirloom the Philosophers Legacy.

Works "Defibulation to treat female genital cutting: effect on symptoms and sexual function", Obstet Gyncol, 2006 "Female genital cutting: A persisting practice", Rev Obstet Gynecol, 2008 "Effectiveness of interventions designed to reduce the prevalence of female genital mutilation/cutting", The WHO Reproductive Health Library, December 1, 2010

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Nawal M. Nour

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Nawal M. Nour claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In biology, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Nawal M. Nour before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Nawal M. Nour ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Nawal M. Nour

In research
Nawal M. Nour appears in biology research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry
Engineering practice reuses Nawal M. Nour in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom
Nawal M. Nour is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1966 births, 20th-century African-American academics, 20th-century American academics, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life
Look for Nawal M. Nour outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.
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Frequently asked questions

What is Nawal M. Nour in simple terms?

Nawal M. Nour is an obstetrician/gynecologist who directs the Ambulatory Obstetrics Practice at the Brigham and Women's Hospital.

Why does Nawal M. Nour matter?

Because it connects several biology ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Nawal M. Nour?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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  • 1966 births
  • 20th-century African-American academics
  • 20th-century American academics
  • 21st-century African-American academics
  • 21st-century African-American scientists
  • 21st-century American academics
  • African-American Muslims
  • American gynecologists
  • American people of Sudanese descent
  • American scientists
  • Brown University alumni
  • Harvard Medical School alumni

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