Kathleen Dugan
Biographic Data
| ID | 10581144 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathleen Dugan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathleen |
| FAMILY NAME | Dugan |
| SIGNATURE | DUGAN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of San Diego |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Public Health in Papua New Guinea
Fasting For Life
Journal Article Fasting For Life: The Place of Fasting in the Christian Tradition Get access Kathleen M. Dugan Kathleen M. Dugan Kathleen M. Dugan is Professor of Theological and Religious Studies at the University of San Diego, San Diego, CA 92110-2492 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LXIII, Issue 3, Fall 1995, Pages 539–548, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaare…
The health campaigns
Although most of the personnel were new, and conscious of making a new beginning in public health, in one respect at least they persisted in old habits. Most of the activity of the department was correctly described as a series of assaults on specific diseases. The purpose of Gunther's survey of before he assumed the Directorship, was to identify the ‘killer-diseases’ which posed the most serious threats to health, and which were most amenable to…
A national health system
By the 1960s, health services were fragmented: each piece the product of historical conditions which were passing away. Each of the major mission societies operated an autonomous health care service, focused on the area where that mission predominated. Within the Public Health Department, the Division of Maternal and Child Health (with its own Deputy Director) ran programmes catering to quite distinct public needs; and the units (waging the campa…
Maps of Papua New Guinea
The past and the future
Past performance is our only guide in suggesting how people might extract the greatest benefit from the resources at their disposal. The historical records of medical services are irritatingly incomplete: they tantalise but do not satisfy. The distinction between ‘well-being’ and ‘ill-being’ is itself arbitrary. Then medical officers record the information which happens to interest them, and historians compound the problem by selecting such infor…
The political economy of health in Papua between the wars
The search for the mainspring of medical policies and programmes must begin with the colonial state, which employed most of the doctors who declared the policies and launched the programmes, and which influenced the behaviour of mission doctors and nurses. It is necessary, therefore, to describe the general purpose of the colonial state and its financial basis. This approach assumes that the colonial state directs its resources (including medical…
The administration of public health
Public health institutions and practices were initiated in Papua New Guinea late in the nineteenth century. They were an integral element of the colonial state, and the administrators were instruments of German and British empires which had developed fairly clear ideas about the proper regulation of public health. By the turn of the century these imperial ideas included a distinct body of theory about the administration of health services in the …
Women and children last
Much of the history of medical administration in Papua New Guinea may be read as the local application of universally agreed prescriptions. In one major area of therapy, however, there was variation within the country. At the risk of over-stating the contrast, it is convenient to present the work of the post-war medical missions as complementary to the department's work. The department was, of course, responsible for the whole country, and the ca…
The Pacific War
The military imagery which coloured medical discussions in New Guinea between the wars reflected Australia's traumatic tradition as supplier of shock-troops for the British Empire. Yet the Pacific War caught the Australian government unprepared. Military planners certainly expected a world war – but a re-run of the Great War. The troops were equipped to fight on the Western Front, but were actually sent to North Africa and to the Middle East, whi…
The political economy of health in New Guinea between the wars
On the face of it, New Guinea should have developed a more effective medical service than Papua. It was the first theatre of military operations for Australian troops in the Great War, and a substantial garrison remained until the Armistice. The plantation economy had been developed by German entrepreneurs into a genuinely profitable industry, which was then expropriated and distributed among Australian ex-servicemen, who also enjoyed preferentia…
Miracle drugs, new perceptions and the post-war Public Health Department
The Pacific War was slow to wind up in New Guinea. Japanese forces – cut off but still able to defend themselves – were harassed by Australian and Papua New Guinean soldiers, while MacArthur drove on to Manila. It was late in 1945 before all surrenders were accepted, all conscript labourers returned home, and most military detachments demobilised. During six years of war (including almost four of direct combat) many features of the 1930s had been…
Medical education
The early medical authorities in colonial Papua – whose own life expectancy was a matter of nervous doubt – had no opportunity to teach each other nor to instruct Papuans. Breinl's visit from the Institute of Tropical Medicine encouraged Strong's interest in the bowel parasites of plantation workers, but the official record makes no reference to formal teaching. Informally, though, doctors encouraged settlers to take their bitter quinine regularl…
Early colonial medical administration
Before colonial administration was attempted, it was already clear that Europeans and their servants would suffer acutely from malaria, and in some circumstances from dysentery. The first resident European, the Russian scientist (and disciple of Tolstoy), Nikolai Nikolayevich Miklouho-Maclay, was conveyed to the north coast in 1871, with two man-servants. The Polynesian soon died, and the surviving Swede fell chronically ill. Maclay's health was …
Pre-colonial health and disease
The context of this enquiry is the health of the people of Papua New Guinea, and its transformation over time. Regrettably, health is largely a subjective condition – ‘well-being’ is how we actually experience it: a contented condition which includes the absence of infection but is also a positive state. A study of health therefore cannot proceed directly: instead it relies upon inference. One source of evidence is the behaviour and observations …
Primary health care
The ideas and techniques of medical care between the wars could be grouped together under the rubric of ‘tropical medicine’, an organising principle which gave those ideas a general coherence. The massive expansion of medical knowledge and drugs during the 1940s burst the limits of that organising principle: so many infections could be prevented or cured, that medical administrators need no longer rely on quarantine and segregation to defend the …
Health education
The public health programme was centralised, technically sophisticated, highly professional, imbued with a sense of urgency, and armed with the most modern drugs. The mood and the approach of its officers precluded the health education of the population at large, since this process would be difficult, might be unnecessary and could yield uncertain benefits. When Robert Black pointed to the increasing salience of health education for the whole soc…
Public Health in Papua New Guinea
This book concerns the development of institutional medicine, medical practice and health care during the initial colonisation and later colonial rule of Papua New Guinea. It discusses the relationship between public health and the medical profession and colonial bureaucracy, and also analyses the profession's social and technical ideas which determined the kinds of health policies and programmes attempted. The first part describes the era of tro…
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The health campaigns
Although most of the personnel were new, and conscious of making a new beginning in public health, in one respect at least they persisted in old habits. Most of the activity of the department was correctly described as a series of assaults on specific diseases. The purpose of Gunther's survey of before he assumed the Directorship, was to identify the ‘killer-diseases’ which posed the most serious threats to health, and which were most amenable to…
A national health system
By the 1960s, health services were fragmented: each piece the product of historical conditions which were passing away. Each of the major mission societies operated an autonomous health care service, focused on the area where that mission predominated. Within the Public Health Department, the Division of Maternal and Child Health (with its own Deputy Director) ran programmes catering to quite distinct public needs; and the units (waging the campa…
Maps of Papua New Guinea
The past and the future
Past performance is our only guide in suggesting how people might extract the greatest benefit from the resources at their disposal. The historical records of medical services are irritatingly incomplete: they tantalise but do not satisfy. The distinction between ‘well-being’ and ‘ill-being’ is itself arbitrary. Then medical officers record the information which happens to interest them, and historians compound the problem by selecting such infor…
The political economy of health in Papua between the wars
The search for the mainspring of medical policies and programmes must begin with the colonial state, which employed most of the doctors who declared the policies and launched the programmes, and which influenced the behaviour of mission doctors and nurses. It is necessary, therefore, to describe the general purpose of the colonial state and its financial basis. This approach assumes that the colonial state directs its resources (including medical…
The administration of public health
Public health institutions and practices were initiated in Papua New Guinea late in the nineteenth century. They were an integral element of the colonial state, and the administrators were instruments of German and British empires which had developed fairly clear ideas about the proper regulation of public health. By the turn of the century these imperial ideas included a distinct body of theory about the administration of health services in the …
Women and children last
Much of the history of medical administration in Papua New Guinea may be read as the local application of universally agreed prescriptions. In one major area of therapy, however, there was variation within the country. At the risk of over-stating the contrast, it is convenient to present the work of the post-war medical missions as complementary to the department's work. The department was, of course, responsible for the whole country, and the ca…
The Pacific War
The military imagery which coloured medical discussions in New Guinea between the wars reflected Australia's traumatic tradition as supplier of shock-troops for the British Empire. Yet the Pacific War caught the Australian government unprepared. Military planners certainly expected a world war – but a re-run of the Great War. The troops were equipped to fight on the Western Front, but were actually sent to North Africa and to the Middle East, whi…
The political economy of health in New Guinea between the wars
On the face of it, New Guinea should have developed a more effective medical service than Papua. It was the first theatre of military operations for Australian troops in the Great War, and a substantial garrison remained until the Armistice. The plantation economy had been developed by German entrepreneurs into a genuinely profitable industry, which was then expropriated and distributed among Australian ex-servicemen, who also enjoyed preferentia…
Miracle drugs, new perceptions and the post-war Public Health Department
The Pacific War was slow to wind up in New Guinea. Japanese forces – cut off but still able to defend themselves – were harassed by Australian and Papua New Guinean soldiers, while MacArthur drove on to Manila. It was late in 1945 before all surrenders were accepted, all conscript labourers returned home, and most military detachments demobilised. During six years of war (including almost four of direct combat) many features of the 1930s had been…
Medical education
The early medical authorities in colonial Papua – whose own life expectancy was a matter of nervous doubt – had no opportunity to teach each other nor to instruct Papuans. Breinl's visit from the Institute of Tropical Medicine encouraged Strong's interest in the bowel parasites of plantation workers, but the official record makes no reference to formal teaching. Informally, though, doctors encouraged settlers to take their bitter quinine regularl…
Early colonial medical administration
Before colonial administration was attempted, it was already clear that Europeans and their servants would suffer acutely from malaria, and in some circumstances from dysentery. The first resident European, the Russian scientist (and disciple of Tolstoy), Nikolai Nikolayevich Miklouho-Maclay, was conveyed to the north coast in 1871, with two man-servants. The Polynesian soon died, and the surviving Swede fell chronically ill. Maclay's health was …
Pre-colonial health and disease
The context of this enquiry is the health of the people of Papua New Guinea, and its transformation over time. Regrettably, health is largely a subjective condition – ‘well-being’ is how we actually experience it: a contented condition which includes the absence of infection but is also a positive state. A study of health therefore cannot proceed directly: instead it relies upon inference. One source of evidence is the behaviour and observations …
Primary health care
The ideas and techniques of medical care between the wars could be grouped together under the rubric of ‘tropical medicine’, an organising principle which gave those ideas a general coherence. The massive expansion of medical knowledge and drugs during the 1940s burst the limits of that organising principle: so many infections could be prevented or cured, that medical administrators need no longer rely on quarantine and segregation to defend the …
Health education
The public health programme was centralised, technically sophisticated, highly professional, imbued with a sense of urgency, and armed with the most modern drugs. The mood and the approach of its officers precluded the health education of the population at large, since this process would be difficult, might be unnecessary and could yield uncertain benefits. When Robert Black pointed to the increasing salience of health education for the whole soc…
Public Health in Papua New Guinea
This book concerns the development of institutional medicine, medical practice and health care during the initial colonisation and later colonial rule of Papua New Guinea. It discusses the relationship between public health and the medical profession and colonial bureaucracy, and also analyses the profession's social and technical ideas which determined the kinds of health policies and programmes attempted. The first part describes the era of tro…
Fasting For Life
Journal Article Fasting For Life: The Place of Fasting in the Christian Tradition Get access Kathleen M. Dugan Kathleen M. Dugan Kathleen M. Dugan is Professor of Theological and Religious Studies at the University of San Diego, San Diego, CA 92110-2492 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LXIII, Issue 3, Fall 1995, Pages 539–548, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaare…
Public Health in Papua New Guinea
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