Jo Robertson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3769240 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jo Robertson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jo |
| FAMILY NAME | Robertson |
| SIGNATURE | ROBERTSON J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Unit for the History of Medicine |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Leprosy's Untainted Child
In the face of an obdurate disease, the Mission to Lepers made a virtue out of "saving" children from leprosy and from paganism by separating them from their parents so that they became a source of publicity, sponsorship, and fund-raising. This policy transformed a benevolent work of mercy into a professional one, for it soon became clear that children separated from their parents did not develop leprosy. Consequently, the asylum became a site wh…
Leprosy and Empire: A Medical and Cultural History (review)
Leprosy and the elusive M. leprae: Colonial and imperial medical exchanges in the nineteenth century
In the 1800s, humoral understandings of leprosy successively give way to disease models based on morbid anatomy, physiopathology, and bacteriology. Linkages between these disease models were reinforced by the ubiquitous seed/soil metaphor deployed both before and after the identification of M. leprae. While this metaphor provided a continuous link between medical descriptions, Henry Vandyke Carter's On leprosy (1874) marks a convergence of differ…
O acervo de Stanley Browne: Leprologista E Médico-Missionário (1907-86)
Esse texto trata de significativa aquisição de documentos que complementam o acervo da Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine de Londres no que diz respeito à vida e obra de Stanley George Browne, especificamente suas atividades internacionais como consultor e seu trabalho no Congo Belga (de 1936 a 1959), em Uzuakoli, na Nigéria (1959 a 1966), e ainda em Londres, com o Leprosy Study Centre (1966-1980). O artigo também se r…
Does it matter who authorises the discourse: Michel de Certeau's Heterologies and black and white Australian literary criticism
This paper examines the relevance of the ‘particularity of the place where discourse is produced’ in two literary histories to discover if de Certeau's distinction, in Heterologies, between historiography and psychoanalysis, helps to determine if and how a work written by a white writer who writes about Aboriginal literature differs from the work of a black writer who does the same thing. It concludes that the status of the author is not a matter…
Leprosy and the elusive M. leprae: Colonial and imperial medical exchanges in the nineteenth century
In the 1800s, humoral understandings of leprosy successively give way to disease models based on morbid anatomy, physiopathology, and bacteriology. Linkages between these disease models were reinforced by the ubiquitous seed/soil metaphor deployed both before and after the identification of M. leprae. While this metaphor provided a continuous link between medical descriptions, Henry Vandyke Carter's On leprosy (1874) marks a convergence of differ…
Does it matter who authorises the discourse: Michel de Certeau's Heterologies and black and white Australian literary criticism
This paper examines the relevance of the ‘particularity of the place where discourse is produced’ in two literary histories to discover if de Certeau's distinction, in Heterologies, between historiography and psychoanalysis, helps to determine if and how a work written by a white writer who writes about Aboriginal literature differs from the work of a black writer who does the same thing. It concludes that the status of the author is not a matter…
Leprosy and the elusive M. leprae: Colonial and imperial medical exchanges in the nineteenth century
In the 1800s, humoral understandings of leprosy successively give way to disease models based on morbid anatomy, physiopathology, and bacteriology. Linkages between these disease models were reinforced by the ubiquitous seed/soil metaphor deployed both before and after the identification of M. leprae. While this metaphor provided a continuous link between medical descriptions, Henry Vandyke Carter's On leprosy (1874) marks a convergence of differ…
O acervo de Stanley Browne: Leprologista E Médico-Missionário (1907-86)
Esse texto trata de significativa aquisição de documentos que complementam o acervo da Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine de Londres no que diz respeito à vida e obra de Stanley George Browne, especificamente suas atividades internacionais como consultor e seu trabalho no Congo Belga (de 1936 a 1959), em Uzuakoli, na Nigéria (1959 a 1966), e ainda em Londres, com o Leprosy Study Centre (1966-1980). O artigo também se r…
Leprosy and Empire: A Medical and Cultural History (review)
Leprosy's Untainted Child
In the face of an obdurate disease, the Mission to Lepers made a virtue out of "saving" children from leprosy and from paganism by separating them from their parents so that they became a source of publicity, sponsorship, and fund-raising. This policy transformed a benevolent work of mercy into a professional one, for it soon became clear that children separated from their parents did not develop leprosy. Consequently, the asylum became a site wh…
History (5 works) · Leprosy (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Dermatology (2 works) · Dermatology (2 works) · History of Science and Medicine (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Leprosy Research and Treatment (2 works)