The Colonial World as Mission and Mandate
Leprosy and Empire, 1900-1940
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5160340 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Worboys (0000-0001-8583-7931, Sheffield Hallam University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Pages | 207-218 |
| Publication date | 2000-01-01 |
| 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 | 10.1086/649327 |
| PMID | 11973829 |
| OpenAlex | W1978115490 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 31 |
| References cited | 1 |
The history of medicine in twentieth-century empires has been dominated by studies of "imperial tropical medicine" (ITM) and its consequences. Historians have been fascinated by the work of medical scientists and doctors in the age of high imperialism, and there are many studies of medicine as a "tool of empire." This paper reviews work that explores colonial medicine as a broader enterprise than ITM in three spheres: missionary activity, modernization, and protection of the health and welfare of indigenous peoples. To illustrate the themes of mission and mandate, it discusses the development of policies to control leprosy in the tropical African and Asian colonies of Britain in the first half of this century, especially the work of the British Empire Leprosy Relief Association (BELRA). Although BELRA's efforts did little to change imperial medical and health agendas, they had an important impact locally and ideologically, and show how closely interwoven the themes of Christian caring, medical humanism, colonial development, and welfare policy had become by the outbreak of the Second World War
Ancient history · Colonialism · Economic history · Empire · Ethnology · Humanism · Ideology · Indigenous · Leprosy · Mandate · Modernization theory · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Welfare · World War II · African cultural and philosophical studies · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · History · History of Medicine and Tropical Health · Law · Medicine
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Essentially Christian, eminently philanthropic
The relationship between Indigenous and allopathic health practitioners in Africa and its implications for collaboration
Medical disasters or disastrous medicine? Dutch medical care in the Dutch East Indies/Indonesia (1870–1949) – three examples
Organizing Missions into Distant Lands
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Literature’s place in the global public health arena
Defining disease, segregating race
Colonial Mission and Imperial Tropical Medicine
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The development of colonial health care provision in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire
Mental Illness in Singapore
Lens to difficult history
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Social Medicine and “Leprosy” in the Peruvian Amazon
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Leprosy in South Africa
| Unique citing works | 31 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,35 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2024 (22) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 27 |