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LECTURE. Colonial Medicine. DATE. LECTURER. 2/5/2013. Aaron Pascal Mauck. STRUCTURE OF LECTURE I. Theories of Disease Causation II. Disease and Modernity III. Arranging Colonial Space. Theories of Disease Causation I. Classical Contagionism II. Miasma Theory

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  1. LECTURE Colonial Medicine DATE LECTURER 2/5/2013 Aaron Pascal Mauck

  2. STRUCTURE OF LECTURE I. Theories of Disease Causation II. Disease and Modernity III. Arranging Colonial Space

  3. Theories of Disease Causation I. Classical Contagionism II. Miasma Theory III. Alternative & Mixed Explanatory Models

  4. Classical Contagionism επί ="upon or above" δήμος = "people" Varro & Cicero: Disease possibly Caused by “tiny animals Some diseases widely considered contagious, e.g. leprosy and plague Period of contagiousness 40 days (classical origin)

  5. Miasma Theory Classical Origins Μίασμα = "pollution” Disease Caused by noxious emanations from rotting matter Malaria = “bad air” Growing Support in Early 19th century Representation of Cholera as Caused by Miasma

  6. Alternative and Mixed Models William Farr: Zymotic Disease Rudoph Virchow, Louis-Rene Villerme: Social Medicine & Disease Predisposition Rudolph Virchow 1821-1902

  7. Alternative and Mixed Models William Farr: Zymotic Disease Rudoph Virchow, Louis-Rene Villerme: Social Medicine & Disease Predisposition WHAT WERE THE STAKES? Contagion, Miasma, & Predisposition imply very different responses to disease Rudolph Virchow 1821-1902

  8. Disease and Modernity: Assessing causation in the context of social change I. Cholera II. Sleeping Sickness III. Typhus

  9. Cholera Three Pandemics in Nineteenth Century: 1817-1824, 1829-1851, 1852-1860

  10. Explaining Cholera Rooted in Massive Economic And Demographic Disruption Global Flows of Goods and People Globalize the Transmission of the Disease: Endemic Disease  Pandemic Disease

  11. Social Disruption Due to Warfare

  12. Social Disruption due to Ecological Catastrophe MADRAS FAMINES, 1877

  13. CHOLERA VACCINATION OF THIRD GHURKA CORPS, 1893

  14. Explaining Sleeping Sickness Rooted in Demands of Colonial Expansion and Settlement Shared Ecology of Humans, Livestock, and Flies Sleeping Sickness Control and Eradication Efforts Linked to The colonial effort Aligning interests of tropical Medicine researchers and Colonizers Medicine as “compensation”

  15. FRENCH AFRICAN COLONIAL MEDICAL SERVICE FIELD TEAM, C. 1905

  16. PATIENTS BROUGHT TO MENGO HOSPTIAL, UGANDA, ON VINE STRETCHERS, C. 1890

  17. MAKESHIFT CLINIC, BIRA, UGANDA, 1899

  18. GRALL HOSPITAL, SAIGON F. 1873 LANESSAN HOSPITAL,HANOI, F. 1893 PRINCIPAL HOSPITAL, DAKAR, F. 1882

  19. AMI POST, C. 1900

  20. JOHANNESBURG GENERAL HOSPITAL BLACK MALE WARD C. 1905

  21. Explaining Typhus Caused By Everyday Social and Economic Disruptions: Poverty, Labor Flows, Poor and Cramped Living Conditions Endemic Until ~1870 in Europe, then in decline Change rooted in Entrenchment of liberal Economic order

  22. Arranging Colonial Space • Sacred and Profane (Durkheim), • Purity and Danger (Douglas) • II. Racializing Social Distance • III. Medicalizing Social Distance

  23. SIR ALBERT COOK, TAKING TEA, MENGO HOSPTIAL, UGANDA C. 1890.

  24. JOHANNESBURG GENERAL HOSPITAL OPERATING ROOM, C. 1905

  25. FIRST CLASS OF ‘INDIGENOUS COLONIAL PHYSICIANS’ ANTANARIVO MEDICAL SCHOOL, MADAGASCAR, 1903

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