Sarah Hodges
Biographic Data
| ID | 167779 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah Hodges |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah |
| FAMILY NAME | Hodges |
| SIGNATURE | HODGES S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Warwick |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0219-9191 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 51 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Navigating time equity
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, there have been a surge in calls for equity to protect the world from future crises. Calls have emphasized equitable distribution of vaccines, a fair access and benefit sharing (ABS) system, and health systems strengthening, all leading to negotiation of a Pandemic Treaty
On the Visual Culture of Policing Fakes in India
Spurious drug bust photojournalism in India is dominated by a few types of images, repeated so regularly as to constitute their own visual trope. Given that hard evidence for fake drugs is notoriously hard to find, I ask: how does spurious drug bust photojournalism perform the truth of the fake? Using the interpretive tools of visual culture to explore the charge these images come to hold, I argue that spurious drug bust photojournalism invites i…
Fake-talk as Concept and Method
In a world seemingly awash with fakes-or at least accusations of fake-ness-it is not only difficult to discern what is 'real' but also to know what to make of such a proliferation of worries about fakes. In this article, a manifesto of sorts for the Special Section, we outline how the problem of 'fake drugs' in particular allows us to understand the phenomenon of fakes in general. We introduce the conceptual and methodological tool of 'fake-talk'…
The Long Shadow of Fake Drugs and the Social Lives of Fake-ness
Introduction to the Special Section 'The Long Shadow of Fake Drugs and the Social Lives of Fake-ness', guest edited by Sarah Hodges and Julia Hornberger
Fake-talk and the Spaza Shop
At the end of August 2018, a controversy erupted in South Africa. Accusations of potentially poisonous 'fake food' had been circulating on social media for a month or so, and by early September reports were common on South African news programmes. Accusations fell at the door of foreign-run spaza shops (convenience stores), some of which were looted and their shopkeepers harmed. Many commentators read these events as another outbreak of the xenop…
The case of the ‘Spurious Drugs Kingpin’
This paper recounts the tale of a 'Spurious Drugs Kingpin' and his scandalous business empire of relabelling and recirculating expired medicines in the south Indian city of Chennai. At the time the story broke, in the first half of 2010, questions of drug safety dominated media headlines and public discussion. However, a closer investigation suggests a more complicated picture. While relabelling expired medicines was certainly a crime, it is far …
Contraception, Colonialism and Commerce
Birth control holds an unusual place in the history of medicine. Largely devoid of doctors or hospitals, only relatively recently have birth control histories included tales of laboratory-based therapeutic innovation. Instead, these histories elucidate the peculiar slippages between individual bodies and a body politic occasioned by the promotion of techniques to manipulate human reproduction. The history of birth control in India brings these as…
Hospitals as factories of medical garbage
Over the course of the twentieth century, as hospitals cleaned up, they came to produce more and more rubbish. Beginning in the 1970s and gaining pace in the 1980s and 1990s, single-use plastic items (syringes, blood bags, tubing) saturated everyday medical practice across the globe. This essay brings the question of plastic to bear upon the longer history of twentieth century sanitary science. The widespread adoption of single-use disposable med…
Bacteriology in British India
In his examination of the relationship between colonialism and laboratory science in India, Pratik Chakrabarti shows how, alongside the story of how germs found new life and meanings in the tropics, the history of bacteriology is the history of the imperial tensions of a universalist science. At the turn of the nineteenth century, bacteriology appeared in India as a panacea. Chakrabarti notes that the discovery of various vaccines provided the vi…
Nandini Bhattacharya. Contagion and Enclaves
It is possible that readers might come to this fluently written history of turn-of-the-century Darjeeling in hopes of settling into a tale of raj nostalgia, a book to accompany high tea served in one of the many manicured gardens across India's network of colonial hill stations. Those readers would be disappointed. Instead, in this often understated book, Nandini Bhattacharya serves up a devastating critique of the brutal logic of place, health, …
Umbilical cord blood banking and its interruptions
What is the relationship between globalization and the body? In both scholarly discourse and everyday practice, the relationship between globalization and the body has been understood through the idea of accumulation - the intensified and interlinked pursuit of health and wealth. Through an examination of private umbilical cord blood banking in south India, this paper investigates the interplay of accumulation and its interruption in Indians' upt…
The Global Menace
The history of medicine has gone 'global.' Why? Can the proliferation of the 'global' in our writing be explained away as a product of staying true to our historical subjects' categories? Or has this historiography in fact delivered a new 'global' problematic or performed serious 'global' analytic work? The situation is far from clear, and it is the tension between the global as descriptor and an analytics of the global that concerns me here. I h…
Introduction
KAren ThrOsbY and sArAh hOdgesWe share a commitment to analyses of technology rooted in narratives of practice, although we express them through different disciplines: sociology (Karen) and history (Sarah).This gave us our starting point for the special issue: that technologies inform our understandings and experiences of our own bodies and that feminist analyses of technology derive an historical epistemic privilege because of the intensity of t…
Contraception, Colonialism and Commerce
Contents: Introduction: late colonial biopolitics Anxiety without action: contraception and the late colonial state The Madras Neo-Malthusian League and global networks of contraceptive evangelism An apocalyptic body politics of modernity: contraception and the self respect movement Contraceptive commercialism Epilogue: the state of the population: history and fertility in 20th-century Tamil Nadu Bibliography Index
Birth on the Threshold
Reviewed by: Birth on the Threshold: Childbirth and Modernity in South India Sarah Hodges Cecilia Van Hollen . Birth on the Threshold: Childbirth and Modernity in South India. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2003. xv + 295 pp. Maps. $60.00, £39.95 (cloth, 0-520-22358-6); $24.95, £16.95 (paperbound, 0-520-2359-4). Birth on the Threshold traces out the relationships among reproductive practices, gender, biomedicine, and mo…
Looting’ the Lock Hospital in Colonial Madras during the Famine Years of the 1870s
The history of the Madras government's lock hospitals in the famine years of the 1870s demonstrates that, although the operation of colonial lock hospitals was primarily coercive and punitive, their inmates regularly interrupted and reconfigured the hospitals' functioning in unexpected ways. While shrewd and successful prostitutes incorporated the Indian Contagious Diseases Acts' (1864 and 1868) compulsory registration and regular incarceration i…
Revolutionary family life and the Self Respect movement in Tamil south India, 1926-49
During the second quarter of the 20th century, the Self Respect movement (cuyamariyatai iyakkam) introduced a programme of non-Brahmin uplift in Tamil south India that consisted of a radical critique of social, political and economic relations. By following the coverage of family and marriage in the Self Respect popular press (the weekly newspaper Kudi Arasu in particular), and through interviews with Self Respecters who lived through the period …
Imperial Medicine
Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History - Volume 3, Number 1, Spring 2002
The Global Menace
The history of medicine has gone 'global.' Why? Can the proliferation of the 'global' in our writing be explained away as a product of staying true to our historical subjects' categories? Or has this historiography in fact delivered a new 'global' problematic or performed serious 'global' analytic work? The situation is far from clear, and it is the tension between the global as descriptor and an analytics of the global that concerns me here. I h…
Looting’ the Lock Hospital in Colonial Madras during the Famine Years of the 1870s
The history of the Madras government's lock hospitals in the famine years of the 1870s demonstrates that, although the operation of colonial lock hospitals was primarily coercive and punitive, their inmates regularly interrupted and reconfigured the hospitals' functioning in unexpected ways. While shrewd and successful prostitutes incorporated the Indian Contagious Diseases Acts' (1864 and 1868) compulsory registration and regular incarceration i…
Revolutionary family life and the Self Respect movement in Tamil south India, 1926-49
During the second quarter of the 20th century, the Self Respect movement (cuyamariyatai iyakkam) introduced a programme of non-Brahmin uplift in Tamil south India that consisted of a radical critique of social, political and economic relations. By following the coverage of family and marriage in the Self Respect popular press (the weekly newspaper Kudi Arasu in particular), and through interviews with Self Respecters who lived through the period …
Contraception, Colonialism and Commerce
Birth control holds an unusual place in the history of medicine. Largely devoid of doctors or hospitals, only relatively recently have birth control histories included tales of laboratory-based therapeutic innovation. Instead, these histories elucidate the peculiar slippages between individual bodies and a body politic occasioned by the promotion of techniques to manipulate human reproduction. The history of birth control in India brings these as…
Hospitals as factories of medical garbage
Over the course of the twentieth century, as hospitals cleaned up, they came to produce more and more rubbish. Beginning in the 1970s and gaining pace in the 1980s and 1990s, single-use plastic items (syringes, blood bags, tubing) saturated everyday medical practice across the globe. This essay brings the question of plastic to bear upon the longer history of twentieth century sanitary science. The widespread adoption of single-use disposable med…
Introduction
KAren ThrOsbY and sArAh hOdgesWe share a commitment to analyses of technology rooted in narratives of practice, although we express them through different disciplines: sociology (Karen) and history (Sarah).This gave us our starting point for the special issue: that technologies inform our understandings and experiences of our own bodies and that feminist analyses of technology derive an historical epistemic privilege because of the intensity of t…
Umbilical cord blood banking and its interruptions
What is the relationship between globalization and the body? In both scholarly discourse and everyday practice, the relationship between globalization and the body has been understood through the idea of accumulation - the intensified and interlinked pursuit of health and wealth. Through an examination of private umbilical cord blood banking in south India, this paper investigates the interplay of accumulation and its interruption in Indians' upt…
Fake-talk as Concept and Method
In a world seemingly awash with fakes-or at least accusations of fake-ness-it is not only difficult to discern what is 'real' but also to know what to make of such a proliferation of worries about fakes. In this article, a manifesto of sorts for the Special Section, we outline how the problem of 'fake drugs' in particular allows us to understand the phenomenon of fakes in general. We introduce the conceptual and methodological tool of 'fake-talk'…
Fake-talk and the Spaza Shop
At the end of August 2018, a controversy erupted in South Africa. Accusations of potentially poisonous 'fake food' had been circulating on social media for a month or so, and by early September reports were common on South African news programmes. Accusations fell at the door of foreign-run spaza shops (convenience stores), some of which were looted and their shopkeepers harmed. Many commentators read these events as another outbreak of the xenop…
Imperial Medicine
Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History - Volume 3, Number 1, Spring 2002
Birth on the Threshold
Reviewed by: Birth on the Threshold: Childbirth and Modernity in South India Sarah Hodges Cecilia Van Hollen . Birth on the Threshold: Childbirth and Modernity in South India. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2003. xv + 295 pp. Maps. $60.00, £39.95 (cloth, 0-520-22358-6); $24.95, £16.95 (paperbound, 0-520-2359-4). Birth on the Threshold traces out the relationships among reproductive practices, gender, biomedicine, and mo…
Looting’ the Lock Hospital in Colonial Madras during the Famine Years of the 1870s
The history of the Madras government's lock hospitals in the famine years of the 1870s demonstrates that, although the operation of colonial lock hospitals was primarily coercive and punitive, their inmates regularly interrupted and reconfigured the hospitals' functioning in unexpected ways. While shrewd and successful prostitutes incorporated the Indian Contagious Diseases Acts' (1864 and 1868) compulsory registration and regular incarceration i…
Revolutionary family life and the Self Respect movement in Tamil south India, 1926-49
During the second quarter of the 20th century, the Self Respect movement (cuyamariyatai iyakkam) introduced a programme of non-Brahmin uplift in Tamil south India that consisted of a radical critique of social, political and economic relations. By following the coverage of family and marriage in the Self Respect popular press (the weekly newspaper Kudi Arasu in particular), and through interviews with Self Respecters who lived through the period …
Contraception, Colonialism and Commerce
Contents: Introduction: late colonial biopolitics Anxiety without action: contraception and the late colonial state The Madras Neo-Malthusian League and global networks of contraceptive evangelism An apocalyptic body politics of modernity: contraception and the self respect movement Contraceptive commercialism Epilogue: the state of the population: history and fertility in 20th-century Tamil Nadu Bibliography Index
Introduction
KAren ThrOsbY and sArAh hOdgesWe share a commitment to analyses of technology rooted in narratives of practice, although we express them through different disciplines: sociology (Karen) and history (Sarah).This gave us our starting point for the special issue: that technologies inform our understandings and experiences of our own bodies and that feminist analyses of technology derive an historical epistemic privilege because of the intensity of t…
The Global Menace
The history of medicine has gone 'global.' Why? Can the proliferation of the 'global' in our writing be explained away as a product of staying true to our historical subjects' categories? Or has this historiography in fact delivered a new 'global' problematic or performed serious 'global' analytic work? The situation is far from clear, and it is the tension between the global as descriptor and an analytics of the global that concerns me here. I h…
Umbilical cord blood banking and its interruptions
What is the relationship between globalization and the body? In both scholarly discourse and everyday practice, the relationship between globalization and the body has been understood through the idea of accumulation - the intensified and interlinked pursuit of health and wealth. Through an examination of private umbilical cord blood banking in south India, this paper investigates the interplay of accumulation and its interruption in Indians' upt…
Nandini Bhattacharya. Contagion and Enclaves
It is possible that readers might come to this fluently written history of turn-of-the-century Darjeeling in hopes of settling into a tale of raj nostalgia, a book to accompany high tea served in one of the many manicured gardens across India's network of colonial hill stations. Those readers would be disappointed. Instead, in this often understated book, Nandini Bhattacharya serves up a devastating critique of the brutal logic of place, health, …
Bacteriology in British India
In his examination of the relationship between colonialism and laboratory science in India, Pratik Chakrabarti shows how, alongside the story of how germs found new life and meanings in the tropics, the history of bacteriology is the history of the imperial tensions of a universalist science. At the turn of the nineteenth century, bacteriology appeared in India as a panacea. Chakrabarti notes that the discovery of various vaccines provided the vi…
Contraception, Colonialism and Commerce
Birth control holds an unusual place in the history of medicine. Largely devoid of doctors or hospitals, only relatively recently have birth control histories included tales of laboratory-based therapeutic innovation. Instead, these histories elucidate the peculiar slippages between individual bodies and a body politic occasioned by the promotion of techniques to manipulate human reproduction. The history of birth control in India brings these as…
Hospitals as factories of medical garbage
Over the course of the twentieth century, as hospitals cleaned up, they came to produce more and more rubbish. Beginning in the 1970s and gaining pace in the 1980s and 1990s, single-use plastic items (syringes, blood bags, tubing) saturated everyday medical practice across the globe. This essay brings the question of plastic to bear upon the longer history of twentieth century sanitary science. The widespread adoption of single-use disposable med…
The case of the ‘Spurious Drugs Kingpin’
This paper recounts the tale of a 'Spurious Drugs Kingpin' and his scandalous business empire of relabelling and recirculating expired medicines in the south Indian city of Chennai. At the time the story broke, in the first half of 2010, questions of drug safety dominated media headlines and public discussion. However, a closer investigation suggests a more complicated picture. While relabelling expired medicines was certainly a crime, it is far …
Fake-talk as Concept and Method
In a world seemingly awash with fakes-or at least accusations of fake-ness-it is not only difficult to discern what is 'real' but also to know what to make of such a proliferation of worries about fakes. In this article, a manifesto of sorts for the Special Section, we outline how the problem of 'fake drugs' in particular allows us to understand the phenomenon of fakes in general. We introduce the conceptual and methodological tool of 'fake-talk'…
The Long Shadow of Fake Drugs and the Social Lives of Fake-ness
Introduction to the Special Section 'The Long Shadow of Fake Drugs and the Social Lives of Fake-ness', guest edited by Sarah Hodges and Julia Hornberger
Fake-talk and the Spaza Shop
At the end of August 2018, a controversy erupted in South Africa. Accusations of potentially poisonous 'fake food' had been circulating on social media for a month or so, and by early September reports were common on South African news programmes. Accusations fell at the door of foreign-run spaza shops (convenience stores), some of which were looted and their shopkeepers harmed. Many commentators read these events as another outbreak of the xenop…
Navigating time equity
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, there have been a surge in calls for equity to protect the world from future crises. Calls have emphasized equitable distribution of vaccines, a fair access and benefit sharing (ABS) system, and health systems strengthening, all leading to negotiation of a Pandemic Treaty
On the Visual Culture of Policing Fakes in India
Spurious drug bust photojournalism in India is dominated by a few types of images, repeated so regularly as to constitute their own visual trope. Given that hard evidence for fake drugs is notoriously hard to find, I ask: how does spurious drug bust photojournalism perform the truth of the fake? Using the interpretive tools of visual culture to explore the charge these images come to hold, I argue that spurious drug bust photojournalism invites i…
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