W Anderson
Biographic Data
| ID | 23123 |
|---|---|
| NAME | W Anderson |
| GIVEN NAMES | W |
| FAMILY NAME | Anderson |
| SIGNATURE | ANDERSON W |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2572-035X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 241 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 42 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1940 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Epistemic preparedness
Preparedness strategies for emergent infectious diseases have focused on microbial surveillance, medical stockpiling and healthcare infrastructure resilience. But what does it mean to be epistemically or cognitively prepared for the next disease outbreak? Taking stock of lessons for data practices and statistical modelling in the wake of COVID-19, we propose a reconceptualising of preparedness in global health, focusing on ecological and sociolog…
How do Australian universities tell the truth
Gathering Dust
The dust and ashes from the destruction of the World Trade Center in New York City on September 11, 2001, have developed dual and contrasting significance: valued as remains of loved ones and feared as toxic residue. Dust has long been associated with the evanescence of life—and more recently, with dangerous environmental exposures or toxicities. The desire for connection to human remains in the continuing work of mourning is put in tension with …
Islands and Beaches in Science and Technology Studies
The Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) annually awards the John Desmond Bernal Prize to one or more individuals who have made distinguished contributions to the field of Science and Technology Studies. Past winners have included founders of the field, along with outstanding scholars who have devoted their careers to the understanding of the social dimensions of science and technology. This article is the revised text of Warwick Anderson's…
Songs that Tell Stories
Gresik, an ancient port city in East Java has played a significant role in international trade and has given rise to unique coastal settlements with distinctive cultures due to the interaction between foreigners and the local community.In 2017, Damar Kurung, a Gresik vernacular art, was declared a national intangible cultural heritage for representing the community's collective memory and local knowledge values, crucial in building a national ide…
Fabricating Science and Technology Studies in the Philippines
Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints is an internationally refereed journal that publishes scholarly articles and other materials on the history of the Philippines and its peoples, both in the homeland and overseas. It believes the past is illuminated by historians as well as scholars from other disciplines; at the same time, it prefers ethnographic approaches to the history of the present. It welcomes works that are theoret…
History and philosophy of science takes form
The Virus That Therefore I Am
Decolonizing the Foundation of Tropical Architecture
There had long been architecture in the tropics, and then there was “tropical architecture.” As a conjuncture of modern architecture or international style and late-colonial developmentalism, formal tropical architecture flourished after World War II in West Africa, South Asia, and the Caribbean. The obvious, though usually neglected, antecedents could be found in the settler colonial tropics, especially in northern Australia and parts of Latin A…
Cycles and circulation
We invite systematic consideration of the metaphors of cycles and circulation as a long-term theme in the history of the life and environmental sciences and medicine. Ubiquitous in ancient religious and philosophical traditions, especially in representing the seasons and the motions of celestial bodies, circles once symbolized perfection. Over the centuries cyclic images in western medicine, natural philosophy, natural history and eventually biol…
The model crisis, or how to have critical promiscuity in the time of Covid-19
During the past forty years, statistical modelling and simulation have come to frame perceptions of epidemic disease and to determine public health interventions that might limit or suppress the transmission of the causative agent. The influence of such formulaic disease modelling has pervaded public health policy and practice during the Covid-19 pandemic. The critical vocabulary of epidemiology, and now popular debate, thus includes R 0 , the ba…
S eth A rcher . Sharks upon the Land
Reading Sharks upon the Land during a pandemic, it is easy to have sympathy with Seth Archer’s strong claims for the influence of infectious disease in ravaging and transfiguring society and culture—in this case, in the previously isolated Sandwich or Hawaiian Islands during the first half of the nineteenth century. Of course, the epidemics that assailed the islanders make the consequences of our rampant novel coronavirus look almost trivial. In …
The Natures of Culture
Thickening Transregionalism
This article offers an overview of science and technology studies (STS) in Southeast Asia, focusing particularly on historical formations of science, technology, and medicine in the region, loosely defined, though research using social science approaches comes within its scope. I ask whether we are fashioning an “autonomous” history of science in Southeast Asia—and whether this would be enough. Perhaps we need to explore further “Southeast Asia a…
Nowhere to run, rabbit
History of American Economic Policy in the Philippines during the American Colonial Period, 1900-1935
History of American Economic Policy in the Philippines during the American Colonial Period, 1900-1935
Liberal Intellectuals as Pacific Supercargo
Some internationally minded liberal intellectual men in Melbourne and Sydney in the 1920s and 1930s became obsessed with the Pacific, viewing its peoples as instructive and appealing, even as possible guides for solving Australia's population problems. I follow three of them—Frederic W. Eggleston, Stephen H. Roberts, and Adolphus P. Elkin—as they read the lessons of Oceania. In particular, experiences in Hawaii and intimacies with Pacific peoples…
Making Global Health History
Journal Article Making Global Health History: The Postcolonial Worldliness of Biomedicine Get access Warwick Anderson Warwick Anderson * *Department of History, University of Sydney, SOPHI, Quadrangle A14, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 27, Issue 2, May 2014, Pages 372–384, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkt12…
Conquest and Pestilence in the Early Spanish Philippines
Colonialism, like contemporary globalisation, has biological consequences. The altered ecologies, at micro and macro levels, can transform human disease patterns, thereby causing social and politic
Queer Science, the Writer's Sorcery, and the Postcolonial Question
The third time I visited D. Carleton Gajdusek, an ambulance was blocking the street outside his apartment building in Amsterdam. It had been there some time, and the drivers of the cars behind it lounged about outside. Some shook their heads and muttered to themselves or talked loudly into their mobile phones; some walked up and down; some shrugged their shoulders; others smoked cigarettes and waited patiently. Although it was summer, a misty Dut…
Reimagining Biology
Ambiguities of Race
The attitudes of Australian biologists, anthropologists, and historians toward race mixing in the early-twentieth century should be viewed in relation to the investigations of Indigenous depopulation and miscegenation taking place in the Pacific. Those Australian scientists committed to national or continental racial ideals–Cecil Cook and Norman B. Tindale among them–remained resistant to the lessons of the Pacific, favouring ‘half-caste’ absorpt…
Teaching `Race' at Medical School
This essay examines the efforts of social scientists and humanities scholars to teach students at a major US medical school about 'race'. The objectives were to explain that race is no longer considered a biologically legitimate concept and to demonstrate that race remains an influential social classification, causing social and biological harm. That is, these educators sought to reframe the medical significance of race. An examination of the ema…
Books
Changing Ways of Death in Twentieth Century Australia. By Pat Jalland. Sydney: UNSW Press, 2006. Pp. 409. $39.95 paper. A Different Sort of War: Australians in Korea, 1950–53. By Richard Trembath. Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2005. Pp. 266. $34.95 paper. New Zealand and the Vietnam War: Politics and Diplomacy. By Roberto Rabel. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2005. Pp. xi + 443. NZ$49.99 paper. The Encyclopedia of Melbourne. E…
Excremental Colonialism
Making Global Health History
Journal Article Making Global Health History: The Postcolonial Worldliness of Biomedicine Get access Warwick Anderson Warwick Anderson * *Department of History, University of Sydney, SOPHI, Quadrangle A14, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 27, Issue 2, May 2014, Pages 372–384, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkt12…
Postcolonial Technoscience
The model crisis, or how to have critical promiscuity in the time of Covid-19
During the past forty years, statistical modelling and simulation have come to frame perceptions of epidemic disease and to determine public health interventions that might limit or suppress the transmission of the causative agent. The influence of such formulaic disease modelling has pervaded public health policy and practice during the Covid-19 pandemic. The critical vocabulary of epidemiology, and now popular debate, thus includes R 0 , the ba…
The New York Needle Trial
During the past 5 years, the exchange of sterile needles and syringes for dirty injecting equipment has gained increasing acceptance outside the United States as a potential means of reducing the transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) among intravenous drug users. This article describes the controversy over attempts to establish a needle and syringe exchange scheme in New York City between 1985 and 1991. The response to a health c…
Teaching `Race' at Medical School
This essay examines the efforts of social scientists and humanities scholars to teach students at a major US medical school about 'race'. The objectives were to explain that race is no longer considered a biologically legitimate concept and to demonstrate that race remains an influential social classification, causing social and biological harm. That is, these educators sought to reframe the medical significance of race. An examination of the ema…
Cycles and circulation
We invite systematic consideration of the metaphors of cycles and circulation as a long-term theme in the history of the life and environmental sciences and medicine. Ubiquitous in ancient religious and philosophical traditions, especially in representing the seasons and the motions of celestial bodies, circles once symbolized perfection. Over the centuries cyclic images in western medicine, natural philosophy, natural history and eventually biol…
Ambiguities of Race
The attitudes of Australian biologists, anthropologists, and historians toward race mixing in the early-twentieth century should be viewed in relation to the investigations of Indigenous depopulation and miscegenation taking place in the Pacific. Those Australian scientists committed to national or continental racial ideals–Cecil Cook and Norman B. Tindale among them–remained resistant to the lessons of the Pacific, favouring ‘half-caste’ absorpt…
Nowhere to run, rabbit
Liberal Intellectuals as Pacific Supercargo
Some internationally minded liberal intellectual men in Melbourne and Sydney in the 1920s and 1930s became obsessed with the Pacific, viewing its peoples as instructive and appealing, even as possible guides for solving Australia's population problems. I follow three of them—Frederic W. Eggleston, Stephen H. Roberts, and Adolphus P. Elkin—as they read the lessons of Oceania. In particular, experiences in Hawaii and intimacies with Pacific peoples…
Immunization and Hygiene in the Colonial Philippines
Vaccination and the enforcement of stipulations of personal hygiene can be viewed as different mechanisms of colonial government. Immunization campaigns reach and register populations, but they may also appear to obviate the need for behavioral reform. Hygiene education implies the development of a disciplined, self-governing citizenry, although in the colonial setting validation of such attainment is usually deferred. This article explores the t…
How's the Empire? An Essay Review
1Department of Medical History and Bioethics, University of Wisconsin, 1300 University Ave, Madison, WI 53706. E-mail: [email protected]
Leprosy and Citizenship
Research Article| August 01 1998 Leprosy and Citizenship Warwick Anderson Warwick Anderson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (1998) 6 (3): 707–730. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-6-3-707 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Warwick Anderson; Leprosy and Citizenship. positions 1 August 1998; 6 (3): 707–730. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-6-3-70…
Geography, Race and Nation
Historical Records of Australian Science publishes peer-reviewed articles and book reviews on the history of science and scientists in Australia and the southwest Pacific, biographical memoirs of deceased Fellows of the Academy, and an annual bibliography of the history of Australian science
Islands and Beaches in Science and Technology Studies
The Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) annually awards the John Desmond Bernal Prize to one or more individuals who have made distinguished contributions to the field of Science and Technology Studies. Past winners have included founders of the field, along with outstanding scholars who have devoted their careers to the understanding of the social dimensions of science and technology. This article is the revised text of Warwick Anderson's…
Fabricating Science and Technology Studies in the Philippines
Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints is an internationally refereed journal that publishes scholarly articles and other materials on the history of the Philippines and its peoples, both in the homeland and overseas. It believes the past is illuminated by historians as well as scholars from other disciplines; at the same time, it prefers ethnographic approaches to the history of the present. It welcomes works that are theoret…
The Virus That Therefore I Am
History of American Economic Policy in the Philippines during the American Colonial Period, 1900-1935
History of American Economic Policy in the Philippines during the American Colonial Period, 1900-1935
Anderson Family Records
Hidden Translation Problems in Mono—Cultural Research
Several years ago. the writer prepared a paper dealing with problems in cross-cultural research [Anderson, 1967]. The translation problem, however, is more ubiquitous than commonly assumed. ... Translation is [potentially] involved whenever research requires asking the 'same' question of people with differing backgrounds. [Ibid., p. 124] This paper will (a) argue that is always a potential problem for sociological research, (b) illustrate the dif…
A Markov chains model of medical specialty choice
Data from 118 members of three consecutive cohorts of students at a private Southern medical school are employed to develop a discrete parameter stationary Markov chains model of the medical specialty choice process. This model was then tested on independent subsamples from the same population, generating a series of predicted specialty choices which did not differ from observed choices by more than chance expectations. Suggestions for future res…
The Ok Tedi Health and Nutrition Project, Papua New Guinea
A survey was carried out to establish baseline anthropometric and health data in the Wopkaimin, a small group of Mountain Ok-speaking hunter-horticulturalists who live in a remote and isolated part of the Highland fringe of Papua New Guinea, where a major gold and copper mine is being developed. Malaria is hyperendemic in the region and infant mortality has been estimated at approximately 230 per thousand. A 79% sample of the population was exami…
The New York Needle Trial
During the past 5 years, the exchange of sterile needles and syringes for dirty injecting equipment has gained increasing acceptance outside the United States as a potential means of reducing the transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) among intravenous drug users. This article describes the controversy over attempts to establish a needle and syringe exchange scheme in New York City between 1985 and 1991. The response to a health c…
The Longman Latin Readers Series
Excremental Colonialism
Agents of the Apocalypse
Reviewed by: Agents of Apocalypse: Epidemic Disease in the Colonial Philippines Warwick Anderson Ken De Bevoise. Agents of Apocalypse: Epidemic Disease in the Colonial Philippines. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995. xiv + 274 pp. Tables, map. $35.00; £30.00. At a time when so many historians of medicine seek to understand the construction—or, perhaps more euphemistically, the “framing”—of disease, Agents of Apocalypse reminds us of the …
Species and Specificity
Geography, Race and Nation
Historical Records of Australian Science publishes peer-reviewed articles and book reviews on the history of science and scientists in Australia and the southwest Pacific, biographical memoirs of deceased Fellows of the Academy, and an annual bibliography of the history of Australian science
Where is the postcolonial history of medicine
Where Is the Postcolonial History of Medicine? Warwick Anderson (bio) David Arnold, ed. Warm Climates and Western Medicine: The Emergence of Tropical Medicine, 1500–1900. Clio Medica, vol. 35. Wellcome Institute Series in the History of Medicine. Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi, 1996. viii + 240 pp. $36.50; Hfl. 55.00 (paperbound). Lenore Manderson. Sickness and the State: Health and Illness in Colonial Malaya, 1870–1940. Cambridge: Cambridge Universi…
Leprosy and Citizenship
Research Article| August 01 1998 Leprosy and Citizenship Warwick Anderson Warwick Anderson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (1998) 6 (3): 707–730. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-6-3-707 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Warwick Anderson; Leprosy and Citizenship. positions 1 August 1998; 6 (3): 707–730. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-6-3-70…
Postcolonial Technoscience
How's the Empire? An Essay Review
1Department of Medical History and Bioethics, University of Wisconsin, 1300 University Ave, Madison, WI 53706. E-mail: [email protected]
How's the Empire? An Essay Review
Journal Article How's the Empire? An Essay Review Get access Warwick Anderson Warwick Anderson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume 58, Issue 4, October 2003, Pages 459–465, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/jrg024 Published: 01 October 2003
Re-discovery, collecting and display of English medieval alabasters
Alabaster production was a major industry in late medieval England, employing various skilled workers who quarried, carved, painted and framed the stone, producing regular-shaped relief panels. Altarpiece arrangements and single panels were acquired by religious institutions and individuals in Britain and other areas of Europe, many of the carvings being exported to France during the Reformation. It was not until the late nineteenth century that …
Books
Changing Ways of Death in Twentieth Century Australia. By Pat Jalland. Sydney: UNSW Press, 2006. Pp. 409. $39.95 paper. A Different Sort of War: Australians in Korea, 1950–53. By Richard Trembath. Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2005. Pp. 266. $34.95 paper. New Zealand and the Vietnam War: Politics and Diplomacy. By Roberto Rabel. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2005. Pp. xi + 443. NZ$49.99 paper. The Encyclopedia of Melbourne. E…
Immunization and Hygiene in the Colonial Philippines
Vaccination and the enforcement of stipulations of personal hygiene can be viewed as different mechanisms of colonial government. Immunization campaigns reach and register populations, but they may also appear to obviate the need for behavioral reform. Hygiene education implies the development of a disciplined, self-governing citizenry, although in the colonial setting validation of such attainment is usually deferred. This article explores the t…
Teaching `Race' at Medical School
This essay examines the efforts of social scientists and humanities scholars to teach students at a major US medical school about 'race'. The objectives were to explain that race is no longer considered a biologically legitimate concept and to demonstrate that race remains an influential social classification, causing social and biological harm. That is, these educators sought to reframe the medical significance of race. An examination of the ema…
Reimagining Biology
Ambiguities of Race
The attitudes of Australian biologists, anthropologists, and historians toward race mixing in the early-twentieth century should be viewed in relation to the investigations of Indigenous depopulation and miscegenation taking place in the Pacific. Those Australian scientists committed to national or continental racial ideals–Cecil Cook and Norman B. Tindale among them–remained resistant to the lessons of the Pacific, favouring ‘half-caste’ absorpt…
Queer Science, the Writer's Sorcery, and the Postcolonial Question
The third time I visited D. Carleton Gajdusek, an ambulance was blocking the street outside his apartment building in Amsterdam. It had been there some time, and the drivers of the cars behind it lounged about outside. Some shook their heads and muttered to themselves or talked loudly into their mobile phones; some walked up and down; some shrugged their shoulders; others smoked cigarettes and waited patiently. Although it was summer, a misty Dut…
Conquest and Pestilence in the Early Spanish Philippines
Colonialism, like contemporary globalisation, has biological consequences. The altered ecologies, at micro and macro levels, can transform human disease patterns, thereby causing social and politic
Making Global Health History
Journal Article Making Global Health History: The Postcolonial Worldliness of Biomedicine Get access Warwick Anderson Warwick Anderson * *Department of History, University of Sydney, SOPHI, Quadrangle A14, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 27, Issue 2, May 2014, Pages 372–384, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkt12…
Liberal Intellectuals as Pacific Supercargo
Some internationally minded liberal intellectual men in Melbourne and Sydney in the 1920s and 1930s became obsessed with the Pacific, viewing its peoples as instructive and appealing, even as possible guides for solving Australia's population problems. I follow three of them—Frederic W. Eggleston, Stephen H. Roberts, and Adolphus P. Elkin—as they read the lessons of Oceania. In particular, experiences in Hawaii and intimacies with Pacific peoples…
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