Dis Ease In The Colonial State
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Dis Ease In The Colonial State
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Author : Osaak Olumwullah
language : en
Publisher: Praeger
Release Date : 2002-07-30
Dis Ease In The Colonial State written by Osaak Olumwullah and has been published by Praeger this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-07-30 with History categories.
Olumwullah examines disease, biomedicine, and processes of social change among the AbaNyole of Western Kenya and analyzes the introduction and use of biomedicine as a cultural tool of domination by British colonizers and the AbaNyole's reaction to this therapeutic tradition and its technologies. He argues that biomedicine is a tool that the colonizers used to think about the colonized. Through an examination of ideas about order and disorder in Nyole cosmology, Nyole experiences with new diseases and biomedical practices that were brought to bear on these diseases; and how these experiences and the meanings they produced transformed metaphors of disease, illness, and healing, this study argues that, just as colonialism was more than a quest for the construction of exploitative political and economic institutions, so was biomedicine more than a mere matter of scientific interest based on benevolent neutrality. By setting the terms of discourse between the West and the African culural environment, and by insinuating itself at the center of contestation over knowledge between a British science and African ways of knowing, colonial biomedical science turned the African body into a site of colonizing power and of contestation between the colonized and the colonizer. Narratives about the incidence of diseases like the plague were in themselves experiences of suffering that opened a window to how local knowledge about disease etiology and disease causation was produced among the AbaNyole. Instead of being passive victims of capitalistic forces of domination and exploitation, the Nyole confronted biomedicine as its assemblage of practices inhabited, passed through, transformed, conserved, or escaped the terrain sketched by a pre-European Nyole worldview. Conventioanl expectations about disease as misfortune were altered as colonialism came to be seen and experienced as a form of social death the AbaNyole had never before encountered.
The Colonial Disease
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Author : Maryinez Lyons
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2002-06-06
The Colonial Disease written by Maryinez Lyons and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-06-06 with History categories.
A case-study in the history of sleeping sickness, relating it to the western 'civilising mission'.
Tuberculosis The Singapore Experience 1867 2018
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Author : Kah Seng Loh
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-11-27
Tuberculosis The Singapore Experience 1867 2018 written by Kah Seng Loh and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-27 with Political Science categories.
Through a rich account of tuberculosis in Singapore from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day, this book charts the relationship between disease, society and the state, outlining the struggles of colonial and post-colonial governments to cope with widespread disease and to establish effective public health programmes and institutions. Beginning in the nineteenth century when British colonial administrators viewed tuberculosis as a racial problem linked to the poverty, housing and insanitary habits of the Chinese working class, the book goes on to examine the ambitious medical and urban improvement initiatives of the returning British colonial government after the Second World War. It then considers the continuation and growth of these schemes in the post-colonial period and explores the most recent developments which include combating the resurgence of TB and the rise of antimicrobial resistance.
Colonizing The Body
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Author : David Arnold
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1993-08-12
Colonizing The Body written by David Arnold and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-08-12 with History categories.
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.
Sickness And The State
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Author : Lenore Manderson
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1996
Sickness And The State written by Lenore Manderson and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Medical categories.
This 1996 book is a history of health and disease in Malaya from colonisation to World War II.
Health Policy And Disease In Colonial And Post Colonial Hong Kong 1841 2003
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Author : Ka-che Yip
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-07-15
Health Policy And Disease In Colonial And Post Colonial Hong Kong 1841 2003 written by Ka-che Yip and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-15 with Social Science categories.
Besides looking at major outbreaks of diseases and how they were coped with, diseases such as malaria, smallpox, tuberculosis, plague, venereal disease, avian flu and SARS, this book also examines how the successive government regimes in Hong Kong took action to prevent diseases and control potential threats to health. It shows how policies impacted the various Chinese and non-Chinese groups, and how policies were often formulated as a result of negotiations between these different groups. By considering developments over a long historical period, the book contrasts the different approaches in the periods of colonial rule, Japanese occupation, post-war reconstruction, transition to decolonization, and Hong Kong as Special Administrative Region within the People’s Republic of China.
Contagion And Enclaves
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Author : Nandini Bhattacharya
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2012-01-01
Contagion And Enclaves written by Nandini Bhattacharya and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-01 with History categories.
Contagion and Enclaves examines the social history of medicine across two intersecting British enclaves in the major tea-producing region of colonial India: the hill station of Darjeeling and the adjacent tea plantations of North Bengal. Focusing on the establishment of hill sanatoria and other health care facilities and practices against the backdrop of the expansion of tea cultivation and labor migration, it tracks the demographic and environmental transformation of the region and the critical role race and medicine played in it, showing that the British enclaves were essential and distinctive sites of the articulation of colonial power and economy.
Famine Fevers And Fear
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Author : S. A. Meegama
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
Famine Fevers And Fear written by S. A. Meegama and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Diseases categories.
Social Aspects Of Health Medicine And Disease In The Colonial And Post Colonial Era
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Author : Henk Menke
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-12-02
Social Aspects Of Health Medicine And Disease In The Colonial And Post Colonial Era written by Henk Menke and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-02 with History categories.
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.
Technology Disease And Colonial Conquests Sixteenth To Eighteenth Centuries
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Author : George Raudzens
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2022-10-04
Technology Disease And Colonial Conquests Sixteenth To Eighteenth Centuries written by George Raudzens and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-04 with History categories.
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.