Topic
Colonial medicine research, explained
6 open-access colonial medicine studies, each with a flashcard deck and a quiz.
- How did colonial Korea handle malaria?
Japanese malaria work in Korea looked like other Asian empires in burden, but the response differed from European colonies and from Taiwan, against a changing Korean epidemiology.
- How empire made kwashiorkor a protein story
Nott argues that kwashiorkor was invented as a continental protein deficit, distancing colonial science from politically dangerous hunger.
- Empire and Britain's chronic-disease science
Moore argues that Britain's post-war hunt for chronic-disease causes turned colonial populations into comparative research material, not just tropical medicine leftovers.
- When did Dutch colonies lock up leprosy?
Compulsory segregation was the exception, used where Dutch rule was direct and plantation slavery made racialised workers disposable once they could not labour.
- How did empires shape medical schools?
Cho and Robert use a 1908 Seoul graduation to introduce a special issue on medical education as a connective tissue of empires, not a one-way export of science.
- Trained army nurses in colonial India
Trained female army nurses reached India after Nightingale, Crimea, and the 1857 uprising, but under tight class, age, and moral rules.