Niels Brimnes
Biographic Data
| ID | 228377 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Niels Brimnes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Niels |
| FAMILY NAME | Brimnes |
| SIGNATURE | BRIMNES N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aarhus University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5807-8762 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
From engineer to historian: Remembering Socrates Litsios
War Against Smallpox: Edward Jenner and the Global Spread of Vaccination by Michael Bennett
Reviewed by: War Against Smallpox: Edward Jenner and the Global Spread of Vaccination by Michael Bennett Niels Brimnes Michael Bennett. War Against Smallpox: Edward Jenner and the Global Spread of Vaccination. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. xii + 424 pp. Ill. $39.99 (978-0-521-14788-0). Scholars writing global health history today tend to be careful to avoid narratives that are either triumphalist, Eurocentric or both. If Michael Be…
Constructing the Colonial Encounter: Right and Left Hand Castes in Early Colonial South India
This book offers a systematic analysis of the violent clashes between the South Indian 'right' and 'left' hand caste divisions that repeatedly rocked the European settlements on the Coromandel Coast in the early colonial period. Whereas the Indian population expected the colonial authorities to intervene in the disputes, the Europeans were reluctant to get involved in conflicts which they barely understood. In the nineteenth century the significa…
The earliest states, high modernist states and the importance of intermediaries
History at its best, in my view, is the most subversive discipline, inasmuch as it can tell us how things that we are likely to take for granted came to be. –James C. Scott (2017, 3–4)It was with a
Coming to terms with the native practitioner: Indigenous doctors in colonial service in South India, 1800–25
This article explores the engagements between the colonial state and indigenous medical practitioners in the Madras Presidency in the early nineteenth century; a period characterised by openness and ambiguous relations. An analysis of textual representations of the ‘native practitioner’ reveals ambiguity. Often the practitioners were portrayed as representing flawed systems of knowledge, yet possessing valuable insight into specific medical pract…
From Civil Servant to Little King: An Indigenous Construction of Colonial Authority in Early Nineteenth-Century South India
Perhaps the most important development in Indian historiography in the 1980s was the emergence of a new genre: ‘colonial discourse analysis’. Based on the rich documentation left behind by the East India Company and the India Office, studies of how knowledge constructed by British administrators, scientist and commentators helped transform Indian society according to the needs of the colonial state abounded. It was shown how new forms of knowledg…
Cultivating the Colonies: Colonial States and Their Environmental Legacies
Another vaccine, another story: BCG vaccination against tuberculosis in India, 1948 to 1960
Through an examination of mass BCG vaccination against tuberculosis in India between 1948 and 1960 this article draws attention to the diversity of the history of vaccination. The features of vaccination campaigns often differed from those of the celebrated campaign to eradicate smallpox. Due to differences between smallpox and tuberculosis as well as between the vaccines developed against them, an analysis of BCG mass vaccination against tubercu…
Medical Modernization and Medical Nationalism: Resistance to Mass Tuberculosis Vaccination in Postcolonial India, 1948-1955
In the fifteen years following World War II more was done to combat tuberculosis than at any other time in world history. On every continent, hundreds of millions received the BCG (Bacillus Calmette Guérin) vaccine and millions more benefited from newly discovered antibiotics. TB research and attempts to control the disease knit together disparate populations and places as a network of experts and a matrix of ideas spread out across the globe lin…
Expunging Variola: The Control and Eradication of Smallpox in India 1947‐77
Tredive år efter - refleksioner i anledning af Edward Saids Orientalism
2008 var trediveret for udgivelsen af Edward Saids staerkt omdiskuterede nyklassiker Orientalism. Det gav ikke umiddelbart anledning til de store kontroverser; hverken
Introduction: Simultaneously Global and Local: Reassessing Smallpox Vaccination and Its Spread, 1789–1900
The last two decades have seen a reawakening of scholarly interest in the history of smallpox prevention. Accounts of vaccination and others efforts at controlling smallpox have moved away from heroic narratives toward more nuanced and contextualized understandings. It is now accepted that several viruses traveled under the vaccine label from the outset, and it has been demonstrated that a variety of techniques were used to perform vaccination op…
Letter from the Guest Editors
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BCG vaccination and WHO's global strategy for tuberculosis control 1948-1983
Vikings against Tuberculosis: The International Tuberculosis Campaign in India, 1948–1951
Between 1947 and 1951 the Scandinavian-led International Tuberculosis Campaign tested more than 37 million children and adolescents for tuberculosis, and vaccinated more than 16 million with BCG vaccine. The campaign was an early example of an international health program, and it was generally seen as the largest medical campaign to date. It was born, however, as a Danish effort to create goodwill in war-ravaged Europe, and was extended outside E…
Beyond Colonial Law: Indigenous Litigation and the Contestation of Property in the Mayor's Court in Late Eighteenth-Century Madras
An important branch in recent debates on the nature of the judiciary in colonial south India has focused on the extent to which the judicial institutions-and the social transformations mediated through them-were controlled by the colonial state. This debate is of interest not only from the point of legal history. From the broader perspective of social and cultural history the debate is important because it draws attention to issues such as indige…
Health, Medicine and Empire: Perspectives on Colonial India
Constructing the Colonial Encounter: Right and Left Hand Castes in Early Colonial South India
This book offers a systematic analysis of the violent clashes between the South Indian 'right' and 'left' hand caste divisions that repeatedly rocked the European settlements on the Coromandel Coast in the early colonial period. Whereas the Indian population expected the colonial authorities to intervene in the disputes, the Europeans were reluctant to get involved in conflicts which they barely understood. In the nineteenth century the significa…
Beyond Colonial Law: Indigenous Litigation and the Contestation of Property in the Mayor's Court in Late Eighteenth-Century Madras
An important branch in recent debates on the nature of the judiciary in colonial south India has focused on the extent to which the judicial institutions-and the social transformations mediated through them-were controlled by the colonial state. This debate is of interest not only from the point of legal history. From the broader perspective of social and cultural history the debate is important because it draws attention to issues such as indige…
BCG vaccination and WHO's global strategy for tuberculosis control 1948-1983
Coming to terms with the native practitioner: Indigenous doctors in colonial service in South India, 1800–25
This article explores the engagements between the colonial state and indigenous medical practitioners in the Madras Presidency in the early nineteenth century; a period characterised by openness and ambiguous relations. An analysis of textual representations of the ‘native practitioner’ reveals ambiguity. Often the practitioners were portrayed as representing flawed systems of knowledge, yet possessing valuable insight into specific medical pract…
Medical Modernization and Medical Nationalism: Resistance to Mass Tuberculosis Vaccination in Postcolonial India, 1948-1955
In the fifteen years following World War II more was done to combat tuberculosis than at any other time in world history. On every continent, hundreds of millions received the BCG (Bacillus Calmette Guérin) vaccine and millions more benefited from newly discovered antibiotics. TB research and attempts to control the disease knit together disparate populations and places as a network of experts and a matrix of ideas spread out across the globe lin…
Letter from the Guest Editors
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Constructing the Colonial Encounter: Right and Left Hand Castes in Early Colonial South India
This book offers a systematic analysis of the violent clashes between the South Indian 'right' and 'left' hand caste divisions that repeatedly rocked the European settlements on the Coromandel Coast in the early colonial period. Whereas the Indian population expected the colonial authorities to intervene in the disputes, the Europeans were reluctant to get involved in conflicts which they barely understood. In the nineteenth century the significa…
Health, Medicine and Empire: Perspectives on Colonial India
Beyond Colonial Law: Indigenous Litigation and the Contestation of Property in the Mayor's Court in Late Eighteenth-Century Madras
An important branch in recent debates on the nature of the judiciary in colonial south India has focused on the extent to which the judicial institutions-and the social transformations mediated through them-were controlled by the colonial state. This debate is of interest not only from the point of legal history. From the broader perspective of social and cultural history the debate is important because it draws attention to issues such as indige…
Vikings against Tuberculosis: The International Tuberculosis Campaign in India, 1948–1951
Between 1947 and 1951 the Scandinavian-led International Tuberculosis Campaign tested more than 37 million children and adolescents for tuberculosis, and vaccinated more than 16 million with BCG vaccine. The campaign was an early example of an international health program, and it was generally seen as the largest medical campaign to date. It was born, however, as a Danish effort to create goodwill in war-ravaged Europe, and was extended outside E…
BCG vaccination and WHO's global strategy for tuberculosis control 1948-1983
Expunging Variola: The Control and Eradication of Smallpox in India 1947‐77
Tredive år efter - refleksioner i anledning af Edward Saids Orientalism
2008 var trediveret for udgivelsen af Edward Saids staerkt omdiskuterede nyklassiker Orientalism. Det gav ikke umiddelbart anledning til de store kontroverser; hverken
Introduction: Simultaneously Global and Local: Reassessing Smallpox Vaccination and Its Spread, 1789–1900
The last two decades have seen a reawakening of scholarly interest in the history of smallpox prevention. Accounts of vaccination and others efforts at controlling smallpox have moved away from heroic narratives toward more nuanced and contextualized understandings. It is now accepted that several viruses traveled under the vaccine label from the outset, and it has been demonstrated that a variety of techniques were used to perform vaccination op…
Letter from the Guest Editors
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Medical Modernization and Medical Nationalism: Resistance to Mass Tuberculosis Vaccination in Postcolonial India, 1948-1955
In the fifteen years following World War II more was done to combat tuberculosis than at any other time in world history. On every continent, hundreds of millions received the BCG (Bacillus Calmette Guérin) vaccine and millions more benefited from newly discovered antibiotics. TB research and attempts to control the disease knit together disparate populations and places as a network of experts and a matrix of ideas spread out across the globe lin…
Cultivating the Colonies: Colonial States and Their Environmental Legacies
Another vaccine, another story: BCG vaccination against tuberculosis in India, 1948 to 1960
Through an examination of mass BCG vaccination against tuberculosis in India between 1948 and 1960 this article draws attention to the diversity of the history of vaccination. The features of vaccination campaigns often differed from those of the celebrated campaign to eradicate smallpox. Due to differences between smallpox and tuberculosis as well as between the vaccines developed against them, an analysis of BCG mass vaccination against tubercu…
From Civil Servant to Little King: An Indigenous Construction of Colonial Authority in Early Nineteenth-Century South India
Perhaps the most important development in Indian historiography in the 1980s was the emergence of a new genre: ‘colonial discourse analysis’. Based on the rich documentation left behind by the East India Company and the India Office, studies of how knowledge constructed by British administrators, scientist and commentators helped transform Indian society according to the needs of the colonial state abounded. It was shown how new forms of knowledg…
Coming to terms with the native practitioner: Indigenous doctors in colonial service in South India, 1800–25
This article explores the engagements between the colonial state and indigenous medical practitioners in the Madras Presidency in the early nineteenth century; a period characterised by openness and ambiguous relations. An analysis of textual representations of the ‘native practitioner’ reveals ambiguity. Often the practitioners were portrayed as representing flawed systems of knowledge, yet possessing valuable insight into specific medical pract…
Constructing the Colonial Encounter: Right and Left Hand Castes in Early Colonial South India
This book offers a systematic analysis of the violent clashes between the South Indian 'right' and 'left' hand caste divisions that repeatedly rocked the European settlements on the Coromandel Coast in the early colonial period. Whereas the Indian population expected the colonial authorities to intervene in the disputes, the Europeans were reluctant to get involved in conflicts which they barely understood. In the nineteenth century the significa…
The earliest states, high modernist states and the importance of intermediaries
History at its best, in my view, is the most subversive discipline, inasmuch as it can tell us how things that we are likely to take for granted came to be. –James C. Scott (2017, 3–4)It was with a
War Against Smallpox: Edward Jenner and the Global Spread of Vaccination by Michael Bennett
Reviewed by: War Against Smallpox: Edward Jenner and the Global Spread of Vaccination by Michael Bennett Niels Brimnes Michael Bennett. War Against Smallpox: Edward Jenner and the Global Spread of Vaccination. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. xii + 424 pp. Ill. $39.99 (978-0-521-14788-0). Scholars writing global health history today tend to be careful to avoid narratives that are either triumphalist, Eurocentric or both. If Michael Be…
From engineer to historian: Remembering Socrates Litsios
Political science (13 works) · History (9 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Vaccination (7 works) · Colonialism (6 works) · History (5 works) · Virology (5 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (4 works)