"Back to the Jungle": Investigating Rats, Grass, Scrub Typhus, and Plantations in Malaya, 1924 - 1974.

IF 1.5 3区社会学 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY

Medical Anthropology Pub Date : 2023-05-19 Epub Date: 2023-04-06 DOI:10.1080/01459740.2023.2185887

Jack Edward Greatrex

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Abstract

In this article, I examine epidemiological research into scrub typhus in British Malaya between 1924 and 1974. Interwar research, I show, explained the incidence of the disease through conjunctions of rats, mites, plantations, lalang grass, and "jungle." In the process, interwar researchers bridged a novel scientific vocabulary centering on disease "reservoirs" with older suspicions of plantations enabling "pests," as well as with a later, explicitly ecological understanding of infectious disease. In exploring this history I thereby help to re-historicize the emergence of ecological notions of disease reservoirs, whilst also pushing at the limit-points of influential notions of "tropicality."

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《回到丛林》：1924年至1974年，调查马来亚的老鼠、草、斑疹伤寒和种植园。

在这篇文章中，我考察了1924年至1974年间英属马来亚丛林斑疹伤寒的流行病学研究。我发现，战争间的研究通过老鼠、螨虫、种植园、拉郎草和“丛林”的结合来解释这种疾病的发病率。在这个过程中，战争间研究人员将一个以疾病“蓄水池”为中心的新科学词汇与种植园使“害虫”成为可能的古老怀疑以及后来对传染病的明确生态学理解联系起来。因此，在探索这段历史的过程中，我有助于重新历史化疾病库的生态概念的出现，同时也突破了“热带性”这一有影响力的概念的极限

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