Grammars of Progress and Pathology: A Recursive History of Africa, Cancer, and "Diseases of Civilization"

IF 0.9 2区 哲学 Q4 HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES
Thandeka Cochrane, David Reubi
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The phrase "disease of civilization" and concomitant lexicons, such as "pathologies of modernization," frequently surface across public and global health discourses. This is particularly the case within the framework of cancer research in Africa. In this article, the authors trace the emergence of these grammars of progress at the beginning of the twentieth century as a biomedical lens through which to analyze and frame cancer in Africa. Arguing with Ann Stoler for a recursive understanding of colonial and postcolonial history, the authors follow in detail the lexical shifts and recursions across the twentieth century, as these grammars move from diseases of civilization to development and modernization. In tracing these lexical shifts, they place them within the broader understandings of Africa and the African body as an other against which Euro-America frames itself.

进步与病理学语法》:非洲、癌症和 "文明病 "的递归史
摘要:"文明病 "这一短语以及 "现代化病症 "等相关词汇经常出现在公共和全球健康论述中。在非洲癌症研究的框架内尤其如此。在这篇文章中,作者追溯了这些进步语法在二十世纪初的出现,并以此作为生物医学的视角来分析和界定非洲的癌症。作者与安-斯托尔(Ann Stoler)一样,主张对殖民地和后殖民历史进行递归式理解,他们详细追溯了二十世纪的词汇变化和递归,这些语法从文明病到发展和现代化。在追溯这些词汇变化的过程中,作者将其置于对非洲和非洲人身体的更广泛理解之中,将其视为欧美人塑造自身的他者。
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Bulletin of the History of Medicine
Bulletin of the History of Medicine 医学-科学史与科学哲学
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0.90
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28
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>12 weeks
期刊介绍: A leading journal in its field for more than three quarters of a century, the Bulletin spans the social, cultural, and scientific aspects of the history of medicine worldwide. Every issue includes reviews of recent books on medical history. Recurring sections include Digital Humanities & Public History and Pedagogy. Bulletin of the History of Medicine is the official publication of the American Association for the History of Medicine (AAHM) and the Johns Hopkins Institute of the History of Medicine.
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