Article ID: CBB001210687

Dr Hirszfeld's War: Tropical Medicine and the Invention of Sero-Anthropology on the Macedonian Front (2012)

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This article investigates the Macedonian Front as an experimental space and scene of international scientific cooperation, with particular reference to the work of Dr Ludwik Hirszfeld, who conducted foundational research in sero-anthropology while serving with the Serbian Army in Salonica. The Allied Armies stationed on the Macedonian Front in the First World War were crippled by malaria. They responded by enlisting the help of leading practitioners in the field of tropical medicine. These experts instructed doctors from the metropole in sanitation and treatment strategies. These doctors in turn formed networks of information exchange and conducted their own research on diseases with which they were otherwise unfamiliar. For his inquiry into the global distribution of blood groups, Hirszfeld drew on a network of scientific collaborators made possible by these novel circumstances, as well as on the remarkable diversity of human subjects assembled around Salonica by the exigencies of global war.

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Authors & Contributors
Calzolari, Ettore
Humphries, Mark Osborne
Magyar, László András
Fabbricatore, Fabio
Novello, Marcello Giovanni
Dobson, Szabolcs
Concepts
Medicine
Medicine and the military; medicine in war
World War I
Science and war; science and the military
Disease and diseases
Women in medicine
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
Places
Italy
United States
Germany
Canada
Great Britain
Turin (Italy)
Institutions
Red Cross Societies
Rockefeller Foundation
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
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