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Colonial Dis-Ease

Author : Anne Perez Hattori
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824828080
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Colonial Dis-Ease written by Anne Perez Hattori and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2004-07-31 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A variety of cross-cultural collisions and collusions—sometimes amusing, sometimes tragic, but always complex—resulted from the U.S. Navy’s introduction of Western health and sanitation practices to Guam’s native population. In Colonial Dis-Ease, Anne Perez Hattori examines early twentieth-century U.S. military colonialism through the lens of Western medicine and its cultural impact on the Chamorro people. In four case studies, Hattori considers the histories of Chamorro leprosy patients exiled to Culion Leper Colony in the Philippines, hookworm programs for children, the regulation of native midwives and nurses, and the creation and operation of the Susana Hospital for women and children. Changes to Guam’s traditional systems of health and hygiene placed demands not only on Chamorro bodies, but also on their cultural values, social relationships, political controls, and economic expectations. Hattori effectively demonstrates that the new health projects signified more than a benevolent interest in hygiene and the philanthropic sharing of medical knowledge. Rather the navy’s health care regime in Guam was an important vehicle through which U.S. colonial power and moral authority over Chamorros was introduced and entrenched. Medical experts, navy doctors, and health care workers asserted their scientific knowledge as well as their administrative might and in the process became active participants in the colonization of Guam.

The Colonial Disease

Author : Maryinez Lyons
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521524520
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (245 download)

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Download or read book The Colonial Disease written by Maryinez Lyons and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-06-06 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A case-study in the history of sleeping sickness, relating it to the western 'civilising mission'.

Disease and Demography in Colonial Burma

Author : Judith L. Richell
Publisher : NUS Press
ISBN 13 : 9789971693015
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Disease and Demography in Colonial Burma written by Judith L. Richell and published by NUS Press. This book was released on 2006-12-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disease and Demography in Colonial Burma is an examination of the factors that shaped demographic change in Burma between 1852 and 1941. Despite increasing contemporary interest in the historical demography of the non-European world, there has been little detailed exploration of Burma's extensive but problematic population records. Judith Richell developed a demographic framework for Burma by analysing late nineteenth century and early twentieth century census data, and used this information to analyse population change within the country. Colonial Burma experienced relatively high rates of mortality, and Richell related this phenomenon to nutrition, the development of sanitary and health services, the impact of migration from India, and agricultural change. She also assessed infant, child and adult mortality, the incidence of endemic diseases such as beri beri and malaria, and outbreaks of plague and cholera as well as the influenza pandemic of 1918. The data the author collected and her discussion of these topics provide an exceptionally valuable resource for scholars interested in Burma, demography and public health in Southeast Asia. Book jacket.

Lục Xì

Author : Vu Trong Phung
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824860616
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Lục Xì written by Vu Trong Phung and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2010-11-30 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean when a city of 180,000 people has more than 5,000 women working as prostitutes? This question frames Vu Trong Phung’s 1937 classic reportage Luc Xi. In the late 1930s, Hanoi had a burgeoning commercial sex industry that involved thousands of people and hundreds of businesses. It was the center of the city’s nightlife and the source of suffering, violence, exploitation, and a venereal disease epidemic. For Phung, a popular writer and intellectual, it also raised disturbing questions about the state of Vietnamese society and culture and whether his country really was "progressing" under French colonial rule. Translator Shaun Kingsley Malarney’s thoughtful and multifaceted introduction provides historical background on colonialism, prostitution, and venereal disease in Vietnam and discusses reportage as a literary genre, political tool, and historical source. A fully annotated translation of Luc Xi follows, in which Phung takes readers into the heart of colonial Hanoi’s sex industry, portraying its female workers, the officials who attempted to regulate it, the doctors who treated its victims, and the secretive medical facility known as the Nha Luc Xi ("The Dispensary"), which examined prostitutes for venereal diseases and held them for treatment. Drawing from his interviews with doctors, officials, and prostitutes and the writings of French doctors on prostitution and venereal disease, Phung provides a rare, firsthand look at the damage caused by the commercial sex industry. His sympathetic portrayal of the Vietnamese underclass is considered one of the most accurate, but he also provides one of the most acerbic, humorous, and critical views of the changes wrought by colonialism in Southeast Asia.

Romanticism and Colonial Disease

Author : Alan Bewell
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 0801877903
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Romanticism and Colonial Disease written by Alan Bewell and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2003-05-22 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colonial experience was profoundly structured by disease, as expansion brought people into contact with new and deadly maladies. Pathogens were exchanged on a scale far greater than ever before. Native populations were decimated by wave after wave of Old World diseases. In turn, colonists suffered disease and mortality rates much higher than in their home countries. Not only disease, but the idea of disease, and the response to it, deeply affected both colonizers and those colonized. In Romanticism and Colonial Disease, Alan Bewell focuses on the British response to colonial disease as medical and literary writers, in a period roughly from the end of the eighteenth century to the middle of the nineteenth century, grappled to understand this new world of disease. Bewell finds this literature characterized by increasing anxiety about the global dimensions of disease and the epidemiological cost of empire. Colonialism infiltrated the heart of Romantic literature, affecting not only the Romantics' framing of disease but also their understanding of England's position in the colonial world. The first major study of the massive impact of colonial disease on British culture during the Romantic period, Romanticism and Colonial Disease charts the emergence of the idea of the colonial world as a pathogenic space in need of a cure, and examines the role of disease in the making and unmaking of national identities.

Native Society and Disease in Colonial Ecuador

Author : Suzanne Austin Alchon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521529457
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (294 download)

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Download or read book Native Society and Disease in Colonial Ecuador written by Suzanne Austin Alchon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-07-18 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the relationship between indigenous populations in the north-central highlands of Ecuador and disease, especially those infections introduced by Europeans during the sixteenth century. Disease, of course, existed in the Americas long before 1500. But just as native societies resisted and eventually adapted to European conquest, so too did they adapt to Old World pathogens. Just as the responses of Indian communities to the economic and political demands of Spaniards varied over time, so too did the immunological responses of indigenous populations change over generations. What began in the sixteenth century as contact and invasion soon would involve both Indians and Europeans in a new history of biological, as well as social, adaptation.

Technology, Disease and Colonial Conquests, Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries

Author : George Raudzens
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004473882
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Technology, Disease and Colonial Conquests, Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries written by George Raudzens and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-10-04 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study consists of eight essays critical of the currently dominant guns and germs theories in the historiography of European colonial conquest causes. Other methods of conquest, notably communication control, were as vital as firepower and disease importation, and motives were often more important than methods.

Social Aspects of Health, Medicine and Disease in the Colonial and Post-colonial Era

Author : Henk Menke
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000329976
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Social Aspects of Health, Medicine and Disease in the Colonial and Post-colonial Era written by Henk Menke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-02 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the 1600s, enslaved people, and after abolition of slavery, indentured labourers were transported to work on plantations in distant European colonies. Inhuman conditions and new pathogens often resulted in disease and death. Central to this book is the encounter between introduced and local understanding of disease and the therapeutic responses in the Caribbean, Indian and Pacific contexts. European response to diseases, focussed on protecting the white minority. Enslaved labourers from Africa and indentured labourers from India, China and Java provided interpretations and answers to health challenges based on their own cultures and medicinal understanding of the plants they had brought with them or which they found in the natural habitat of their new homes. Colonizers, enslaved and indentured labourers learned from each other and from the indigenous peoples who were marginalized by the expansion of plantations. This volume explores the medical, cultural and personal implications of these encounters, with the broad concept of medical pluralism linking the diversity of regional and cultural focus offered in each chapter. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

Romanticism and Colonial Disease

Author : Alan Bewell
Publisher : Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Romanticism and Colonial Disease written by Alan Bewell and published by Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colonial experience was profoundly structured by disease, as expansion brought people into contact with new and deadly maladies. Pathogens were exchanged on a scale far greater than ever before. Native populations were decimated by wave after wave of Old World diseases. In turn, colonists suffered disease and mortality rates much higher than in their home countries. Not only disease, but the idea of disease, and the response to it, deeply affected both colonizers and those colonized. In Romanticism and Colonial Disease, Alan Bewell focuses on the British response to colonial disease as medical and literary writers, in a period roughly from the end of the eighteenth century to the middle of the nineteenth century, grappled to understand this new world of disease. Bewell finds this literature characterized by increasing anxiety about the global dimensions of disease and the epidemiological cost of empire. Colonialism infiltrated the heart of Romantic literature, affecting not only the Romantics' framing of disease but also their understanding of England's position in the colonial world. The first major study of the massive impact of colonial disease on British culture during the Romantic period, Romanticism and Colonial Disease charts the emergence of the idea of the colonial world as a pathogenic space in need of a cure, and examines the role of disease in the making and unmaking of national identities.

Curing Their Ills

Author : Megan Vaughan
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804719711
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book Curing Their Ills written by Megan Vaughan and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a lively and original book, which treats Western biomedical discourse about illness in Africa as a cultural system that constructed "the African" out of widely varying, and sometimes improbable, materials. Referring mainly to British dependencies in East and Central Africa in the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, it draws on diverse sources ranging from court records and medical journals to fund-raising posters and "jungle doctor" cartoons. Curing Their Ills brings refreshing concreteness and dynamism to the discussion of European attitudes toward their others, as it traces the shifts and variations in medical discourse on African illness. Among the topics the book covers are the differences between missionary medicine, which emphasized individual responsibility for sin and disease, and secular medicine, which tended toward an ethnic model of collective pathology; leprosy and the construction of the social role of "the leper"; and the struggle to define insanity in a context of great ignorance about what the "normal African" was like and a determination to crush indigenous beliefs about bewitchment. The underlying assumption of this discourse was that disease was produced by the disintegration and degeneration of "tribal" cultures, which was seen to be occurring in the process of individualization and modernization. This was a cultural rather than a materialist model, the argument being that Africans were made sick not by the material changes to their lives and environment, but by their cultural "maladaptation" to modern life. The "scientific" discourse about the biological inferiority of "the African," traced by one school of scientists to defects in the frontal lobe, makes painful reading today; it persisted into the 1950s.

Leprosy and Empire

Author : Rod Edmond
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139462873
Total Pages : 3 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Leprosy and Empire written by Rod Edmond and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-30 with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative, interdisciplinary study of why leprosy, a disease with a very low level of infection, has repeatedly provoked revulsion and fear. Rod Edmond explores, in particular, how these reactions were refashioned in the modern colonial period. Beginning as a medical history, the book broadens into an examination of how Britain and its colonies responded to the believed spread of leprosy. Across the empire this involved isolating victims of the disease in 'colonies', often on offshore islands. Discussion of the segregation of lepers is then extended to analogous examples of this practice, which, it is argued, has been an essential part of the repertoire of colonialism in the modern period. The book also examines literary representations of leprosy in Romantic, Victorian and twentieth-century writing, and concludes with a discussion of traveller-writers such as R. L. Stevenson and Graham Greene who described and fictionalised their experience of staying in a leper colony.

Colonizing Leprosy

Author : Michelle Therese Moran
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 080783145X
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Colonizing Leprosy written by Michelle Therese Moran and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By comparing institutions in Hawai'i and Louisiana designed to incarcerate individuals with a highly stigmatized disease, Colonizing Leprosy provides an innovative study of the complex relationship between U.S. imperialism and public health policy in the

Secret Judgments of God

Author : Noble David Cook
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806133775
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (337 download)

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Download or read book Secret Judgments of God written by Noble David Cook and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wake of European expansion, disease outbreaks in the New World caused the greatest loss of life known to history. Post-contact Native American inhabitants succumbed in staggering numbers to maladies such as smallpox, measles, influenza, and typhus, against which they had no immunity. A collection of case studies by historians, geographers, and anthropologists, "Secret Judgments of God" discusses how diseases with Old World origins devastated vulnerable native populations throughout Spanish America. In their preface to the paperback edition, the editors discuss the ongoing, often heated debate about contact population history.

Health in Colonial Ghana

Author : Karl David Patterson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Health in Colonial Ghana written by Karl David Patterson and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Native Society and Disease in Colonial Ecuador

Author : Suzanne Austin Alchon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521401869
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Native Society and Disease in Colonial Ecuador written by Suzanne Austin Alchon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992-01-31 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the relationship between indigenous populations in the north-central highlands of Ecuador and disease, especially those infections introduced by Europeans during the sixteenth century. Disease, of course, existed in the Americas long before 1500. But just as native societies resisted and eventually adapted to European conquest, so too did they adapt to Old World pathogens. Just as the responses of Indian communities to the economic and political demands of Spaniards varied over time, so too did the immunological responses of indigenous populations change over generations. What began in the sixteenth century as contact and invasion soon would involve both Indians and Europeans in a new history of biological, as well as social, adaptation.

Colonizing the Body

Author : David Arnold
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520082953
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (829 download)

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Download or read book Colonizing the Body written by David Arnold and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1993-08-12 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this innovative analysis of medicine and disease in colonial India, David Arnold explores the vital role of the state in medical and public health activities, arguing that Western medicine became a critical battleground between the colonized and the colonizers. Focusing on three major epidemic diseases—smallpox, cholera, and plague—Arnold analyzes the impact of medical interventionism. He demonstrates that Western medicine as practiced in India was not simply transferred from West to East, but was also fashioned in response to local needs and Indian conditions. By emphasizing this colonial dimension of medicine, Arnold highlights the centrality of the body to political authority in British India and shows how medicine both influenced and articulated the intrinsic contradictions of colonial rule.

Technology, Disease, and Colonial Conquests, Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries

Author : George Raudzens
Publisher : Brill Academic Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Technology, Disease, and Colonial Conquests, Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries written by George Raudzens and published by Brill Academic Publishers. This book was released on 2000-12-31 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study consists of eight essays critical of the currently dominant guns and germs theories in the historiography of European colonial conquest causes. Other methods of conquest, notably communication control, were as vital as firepower and disease importation, and motives were often more important than methods.