Neurasthenia at Mengo Hospital, Uganda: A case study in psychiatry and a diagnosis, 1906-50 [0.03%]
乌干达姆engo医院的神经衰弱:一项精神卫生案例研究及诊断(1906-1950)
Yolana Pringle
Yolana Pringle
This article uses a case-study approach to examine the complex and contradictory nature of diagnoses like neurasthenia in colonial Africa. Drawing on the case notes of European and African patients diagnosed with neurasthenia at the Church ...
Gnawing Pains, Festering Ulcers, and Nightmare Suffering: Selling Leprosy as a Humanitarian Cause in the British Empire, c. 1890-1960 [0.03%]
咬噬的疼痛,腐烂的溃疡和噩梦般的苦难:约1890至1960年间的英国帝国卖力宣传麻风病的人道主义论调
Kathleen Vongsathorn
Kathleen Vongsathorn
When British attention was drawn to the issue of leprosy in the Empire, humanitarian organisations rose to take on responsibility for the 'fight against leprosy'. In an effort to fundraise for a distant cause at a time when hundreds of char...
The construction of a "population problem" in colonial India, 1919-1947 [0.03%]
殖民统治下的印度“人口问题”概念形成研究(1919—1947)
Rahul Nair
Rahul Nair
This article examines the construction of a "population problem" among public health officials in India during the inter-war period. British colonial officials came to focus on India's population through their concern with high Indian infan...
Hydrology and empire: the Nile, water imperialism and the partition of Africa [0.03%]
尼罗河、水资源帝国主义与非洲瓜分政策的关系
Terje Tvedt
Terje Tvedt
Why did the British march up the Nile in the 1890s? The answers to this crucial question of imperial historiography have direct relevance for narratives and theories about imperialism, in general, and the partition of Africa in the nineteen...
Bad blood: poverty, psychopathy and the politics of transgression in Kenya Colony, 1939-59 [0.03%]
恶劣血液:肯尼亚殖民地的贫困、精神病和越轨政治(1939-1959)
Will Jackson
Will Jackson
This article examines the inter-relationship between psychiatry and sex, both fertile fields within the recent historiography of colonialism and empire. Using a series of case files pertaining to European patients admitted to the Mathari Me...
From convicts to colonists: the health of prisoners and the voyage to Australia, 1823-53 [0.03%]
从囚犯到殖民者:澳大利亚之旅的囚犯健康状况(1823-1853)
Katherine Foxhall
Katherine Foxhall
From 1815, naval surgeons accompanied all convict voyages from Britain and Ireland to the Australian colonies. As their authority grew, naval surgeons on convict ships increasingly used their medical observations about the health of convict...
The West African medical staff and the administration of Imperial tropical medicine, 1902-14 [0.03%]
1902-1914年西非的医疗人员与帝国热带医学管理政策
Ryan Johnson
Ryan Johnson
Established in 1902, the West African Medical Staff (WAMS) brought together the six medical departments of British West Africa. Its formation also followed the foundation of schools of tropical medicine in London and Liverpool. While the 'w...