Malariology and decolonization: Eastern European experts from the League of Nations to the World Health Organization

IF 1.7 1区 历史学 Q1 HISTORY
Bogdan C. Iacob
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Abstract The article de-centres the global history of disease by examining the agency of Eastern European expertise at international organizations and during decolonization. It challenges accounts of anti-malaria policies at the League of Nations Health Organization and at the World Health Organization written from a Western, particularly North American perspective, or on the basis of local reactions to Western interventions. The contribution proposes an analysis of circulations and ideas across multiple cultural, social and political spaces: post-imperial European states, (post)colonial territories and bureaucracies of international organizations. From the 1920s to the 1960s, Eastern European experts played a crucial role in the transformation of malaria from an imperial disease that tested governance over ‘tropical’ peoples into an issue of global health and nation-state building. However, regional representatives reproduced civilizational hierarchies intrinsic to North–South biomedical relations. The global entanglements of Eastern European malariology show that liberation from disease was less about communism or liberalism, and more about national renewal, statehood and world hierarchies.
疟疾学和非殖民化:从国际联盟到世界卫生组织的东欧专家
摘要本文通过考察东欧专业知识在国际组织和非殖民化期间的作用,对全球疾病史进行了梳理。它挑战了国际联盟卫生组织和世界卫生组织从西方,特别是北美的角度,或根据当地对西方干预措施的反应,对抗疟疾政策的描述。该贡献提出了对多个文化、社会和政治空间中的流通和思想的分析:后帝国主义的欧洲国家、(后)殖民地和国际组织的官僚机构。从20世纪20年代到60年代,东欧专家在将疟疾从一种考验“热带”人民治理的帝国疾病转变为全球卫生和民族国家建设问题方面发挥了关键作用。然而,地区代表再现了南北生物医学关系中固有的文明等级制度。东欧不合时宜的全球纠葛表明,从疾病中解放出来与其说是共产主义或自由主义,不如说是国家复兴、国家地位和世界等级制度。
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3.30
自引率
5.30%
发文量
28
期刊介绍: Journal of Global History addresses the main problems of global change over time, together with the diverse histories of globalization. It also examines counter-currents to globalization, including those that have structured other spatial units. The journal seeks to transcend the dichotomy between "the West and the rest", straddle traditional regional boundaries, relate material to cultural and political history, and overcome thematic fragmentation in historiography. The journal also acts as a forum for interdisciplinary conversations across a wide variety of social and natural sciences. Published for London School of Economics and Political Science
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