The Language of Disease: Writing Syphilis in Nineteenth-Century France by Steven Wilson (review)

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1. See Cohen, Body Worth Defending. 2. As Neel Ahuja, Warwick Anderson, John Farley, and John Ettling have respectively shown, the American colonial state and organizations such as the Rockefeller Foundation played a major role in the pathologization of people of color both in the mainland South and in offshore territories. See Ahuja, Bioinsecurities; Anderson, Colonial Pathologies; Farley, Bilharzia; and Ettling, Germ of Laziness. 3. See for instance Sherry, “(Post)colonising Disability.” 4. Treichler, “AIDS, Homophobia, and Biomedical Discourse,” 31.