Ecologies of Complexity
Tropical Environments, African Trypanosomiasis, and the Science of Disease Control in British Colonial Africa, 1900-1940
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3924922 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Helen Tilley (0000-0002-9524-546X, Princeton University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Pages | 21-38 |
| Publication date | 2004-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Osiris (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0369-7827 • E-ISSN: 1933-8287 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/649392 |
| PMID | 15449386 |
| OpenAlex | W1993344775 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 33 |
Tropical Africa was one of the last regions of the world to experience formal European colonialism, a process that coincided with the advent of a range of new scientific specialties and research methods. The history of British attempts to understand and control African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness in humans and nagana in cattle), following the intense human epidemics that broke out between 1895 and 1910, reveals hitherto ignored scientific research in the fields of ecology, epidemiology, and tropical medicine that helped produce a new understanding of the "ecology of disease." Often generated within a transnational and inter-disciplinary context, this knowledge increasingly assumed that vector-borne diseases in tropical environments were highly complex, dynamic, and interrelated phenomena. Thus while many people continued to hope that trypanosomiasis could be eradicated, research results made this prospect seem unlikely, if not impossible
African trypanosomiasis · Archaeology · Biology · Colonialism · Disease · Environmental ethics · Ethnology · Geography · History of Africa · Neglected tropical diseases · Social science · Sociology · Tropical disease · Trypanosomiasis · Anthropology · History · History of Medicine and Tropical Health · Medicine · Trypanosoma species research and implications · Ecology · Immunology
African Environmental Crisis
Water and Development
The Colonial Era
Embodied Wildlife Histories and the Urban Landscape
Gouverner la nature, moderniser le colonialisme
As resistências africanas diante das medidas preventivas coloniais contra a doença do sono na Zâmbia (1890-1920)
Triangulating health
Heroes of Charity?’ Between Memory and Hagiography
Bioprospecting and Resistance
Settler Visions of Health
Markets and Mutations
Go Back to the Land!' Negotiating Space, Framing Governmentality in Lambwe Valley, Kenya 1954-75
Flies, pathogens, and wildlife
Killing tsetse and/or saving wildlife? A multispecies assemblage in colonial Zambia (1895-1959)
O Aedes aegypti e os mosquitos na historiografia
Humans, Animals, and Health
Teaching public health humanities
Pandemias, ecologia e saúde e no Antropoceno
Natural history and the clinic
Science, knowledge and colonial rule in Africa
Robert Koch and the invention of the carrier state
Knowing Insects
A Politics of Habitability
Tactile topologies of the rural
Control of Insect Vectors in the Japanese Empire
Trypanosomiasis, tropical medicine, and the practices of inter-colonial research at Lake Victoria, 1902-07
Da malária e da 'corrupção
Ecologia, doença e desenvolvimento na Amazônia dos anos 1950
The gloomy forebodings of this dread disease', climate, famine and sleeping sickness in East Africa
The dawn of Structural One Health
Anthrax in Transit
Surveiller et s'unir
Through marsh and mountain
| Unique citing works | 33 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,27 |
| Citation span | 2000 - 2026 (27) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 33 |