Public Health at the Border of Zimbabwe and Mozambique, 1890–1940
African Experiences in a Contested Space
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Beschreibung
This book is the first major work to explore the utility of the border as a theoretical, methodological, and interpretive construct for understanding colonial public health by considering African experiences in the Zimbabwe-Mozambique borderland. It examines the impact of colonial public health measures such as medical examinations/inspections, vaccinations, and border surveillance on African villagers in this borderland. The book asks whether the conjunction of a particular colonized society, a distinctive kind of colonialism, and a particular territorial border generated reluctance to embrace public health because of certain colonial circumstances which impeded the acceptance of therapeutic alternatives that were embraced by colonized people elsewhere. It asks historians to look elsewhere for similar kinds of histories involving racialized application of public health policies in colonial borderlands.
This book is the first major work to explore the utility of the border as a theoretical, methodological, and interpretive construct for understanding colonial public health by considering African experiences in the Zimbabwe-Mozambique borderland. It examines the impact of colonial public health measures such as medical examinations/inspections, vaccinations, and border surveillance on African villagers in this borderland. The book asks whether the conjunction of a particular colonized society, a distinctive kind of colonialism, and a particular territorial border generated reluctance to embrace public health because of certain colonial circumstances which impeded the acceptance of therapeutic alternatives that were embraced by colonized people elsewhere. It asks historians to look elsewhere for similar kinds of histories involving racialized application of public health policies in colonial borderlands.
Explores how two different colonial systems tried to control infectious disease in the border region between Zimbabwe and Mozambique Draws on archival sources from both British and Portuguese colonial documents, as well as oral interviews conducted in Zimbabwe and Mozambique Uses a cross-disciplinary approach and appeals to scholars from history, public health, epidemiology, ethnography, environmental and medical humanities, as well as the study of Africa during the colonial period
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Francis Dube
Themen in »Public Health at the Border of Zimbabwe and Mozambique, 1890–1940«
Border studies African Borderlands Epidemics Ebola Disease in Africa Shona people Western medicine Zimbabwe Mozambique cross-border health issues
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"Public Health at the Border of Zimbabwe and Mozambique, 1890–1940 is a well written and thoroughly researched book about various dimensions of 'health' ... . a valuable contribution to the research on colonial public health. ... The strength of this book is the integration of so many aspects in on study ... ." (Geert Castryck, H-Soz-Kult, hsozkult.de, May 31, 2022)
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