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  1. The Immigrating Body and the Body Politic: The ‘Yemenite Children Affair’ and Body Commodification in Israel.Meira Weiss - 2001 - Body and Society 7 (2-3):93-109.
    After its establishment in 1948 many Jews emmigrated to Israel from Arab countries, Yemen included. In 1995, a governmental committee was established to investigate the alleged disappearance of about 1000 Yemenite children from hospitals within transit camps where the new immigrants were kept in the 1950s. Interviews with Yemenites present how the bodies of new immigrants were medicalized and commodified in the transit camps during the mass-immigration period of the 1950s, and how people have come to resist it. I conclude (...)
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  • Tropical medicine in nineteenth-century India.Mark Harrison - 1992 - British Journal for the History of Science 25 (3):299-318.
    It is customary to regard ‘tropical medicine’ as a product of the late nineteenth century, ‘its instrument the microscope, its epistemology the germ theory of disease’. The accepted interpretation is that tropical medicine was a European concept: originating in Britain and France and exported to the colonies by pioneering medical scientists. This interpretation is useful inasmuch as ‘tropical medicine’ as a discipline with its own journals, institutions, qualifications, and an exclusive discourse did not emerge until the last decade of the (...)
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  • The Mad and the Past: Retrospective Diagnosis, Post-Coloniality, Discourse Analysis and the Asylum Archive. [REVIEW]James Mills - 2000 - Journal of Medical Humanities 21 (3):141-158.
    Before attempting to use as a historical source the Lucknow Lunatic Asylum case notes of the British colonial period in India, it is necessary to determine which methodological approach is most viable. The approach of historians, who attempt retrospectively to diagnose the patients of the past from the clinical details of case notes, does not satisfactorily deal with the criticism that data on medical case notes is less a series of objective observations and more a product of the power relations (...)
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  • (1 other version)Gomastahs, Peons, Polizei und Chowdranies: Die Rolle der indischen Untergebenen in den Krankenhäusern für Geschlechtskrankheiten und des Contagious Diseases Act, 1805–1889. [REVIEW]Divya Rama Gopalakrishnan - 2022 - NTM Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin 30 (1):29-61.
    ZusammenfassungDie jüngere Forschung zur Sozialgeschichte der Gesundheit und Medizin im kolonialen Indien hat sich jenseits spezifischer hegemonialer Aspekte der imperialen Medizin mittlerweile verstärkt der Bedeutung ihrer indischen Vermittler und der gebrochenen Natur kolonialer Herrschaft zugewandt. Davon inspiriert beleuchtet der Beitrag die Rolle indischer Subalterner im System der Krankenhäuser für Geschlechtskrankheiten der Provinz Madras im 19. Jahrhundert. Er fokussiert auf die so genannten „Gomastah“, eine Klasse von indischen Untergebenen, die zur Aufdeckung der illegalen Prostitution in Madras eingesetzt wurden, um so die (...)
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  • (1 other version)Connecting the Empire: New Research Perspectives on Infrastructures and the Environment in the (Post)Colonial World.Ute Hasenöhrl & Jonas van der Straeten - 2016 - NTM Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin 24 (4):355-391.
    In the academic debate on infrastructures in the Global South, there is a broad consensus that (post)colonial legacies present a major challenge for a transition towards more inclusive, sustainable and adapted modes of providing services. Yet, relatively little is known about the emergence and evolution of infrastructures in former colonies. Until a decade ago, most historical studies followed Daniel Headrick’s (1981) “tools of empire” thesis, painting—with broad brush strokes—a picture of infrastructures as instruments for advancing the colonial project of exploitation (...)
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