Colonial Malariology, Medical Borders, and Sharing Scientific Knowledge in Mandatory Palestine

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ID5129204
AuthorsSandy Sufian (0000-0001-5545-5801, University of Illinois Chicago, corresponding author)
Year2006
Volume19
Issue3
Pages381-400
Publication date2006-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueScience in Context (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0269-8897 • E-ISSN: 1474-0664
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0269889706000986
PMID17214436
OpenAlexW2062789698
LanguageEN
Citations received3

ArgumentThis article focuses on the specific ways in which Zionist scientists studying malaria in Mandatory Palestine (1920-1947) presented their work to international scientific circles, moving between the transnational aspects and the local aspects of their work on malaria while suffusing that work with nationalist meanings. This slippery yet seemingly unproblematic movement between the general and the specific, between the colonial world and Palestine, was a necessary mechanism of scientific exchange. In the Zionist case the work on malaria for these scientists was both a marker of their belief in progress and also a sign of their devotion to a specific political and social project. The knowledge imparted by Zionist malariologists and the international reception it received lent scientific legitimacy to the Zionist project while it advanced the goals of settling the land and defining the communal borders within Palestine between the Arab population and the Jewish one. In this way, the Zionist anti-malaria project in Palestine holds a unique place in malaria research of the time

Ancient history · Business · Colonialism · Palestine · Political science · History · History of Science and Medicine · Law

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