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Race, Medicine, and Colonial Rule in the Mandated Territory of New Guinea (2013)

Canadian Bulletin of Medical History/Bulletin Canadienne d'Histoire de la Medecine
Volume: 29, no. 4
Issue: 4
Pages: 47-67

Publication Date: 2013
Edition Details: Part of a special section, “Internationalizing Perspectives: Re-Reading Mandate History through a Health Policy Lens”
Language: English

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Medicine and race Colonialism Public health Infectious diseases Prevention and control of disease 20th century, early New Guinea Australia

Public health in the Mandated Territory of New Guinea shared characteristics with regimes in other colonial territories. The protection of European health and ensuring a supply of efficient indigenous labour were the principle aims of the public health regime. Measures to control infectious disease focussed on racial segregation of urban spaces, surveillance, and control of indigenous mobility. Yet, if the mandate did not systemically encourage projects in preventive health and social medicine, wider public engagement with the international discourse of indigenous welfare and uplift surrounding it at times shaped colonial administration indirectly. One Director of Public Health in New Guinea, Raphael Cilento, invoked the terms of the mandate during acrimonious debates over nutrition in the 1920s that led to significant changes to rations included in the Native Labour Ordinance. La santé publique dans le Territoire de Nouvelle-Guinée sous mandat partage de multiples caractéristiques avec les régimes coloniaux d'autres territories. Elle est régie par deux considérations principales : protéger la santé des Européens et garantir une main d'oeuvre autochtone suffisante. Les measures prises pour le contrôle des maladies infectieuses visent en premier lieu à ségréger racialement les espaces urbains, à surveiller et à contrôler la mobilité des indigenes . Cela étant, bien que le mandat n'ait pas systématiquement encourage les projets de prévention sanitaire et de médecine sociale, de façon plus générale, la prise en compte publique du discours international sur le bien-être et le progrès des indigenes qui entoure le système mandataire structure parfois, indirectement, l'action des colonisateurs. Un des directeurs de la Santé Publique mandataire, Raphael Cilento, se réfère ainsi aux termes du mandat pour prendre position dans les débats houleux qui jalonnent les années 1920, jusqu'à entraîner des modifications significatives des rations prévues par l'Ordonnance sur le Travail Indigène.

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Article Bourmaud, Philippe (2013) Internationalizing Perspectives: Re-Reading Mandate History through a Health Policy Lens. Canadian Bulletin of Medical History/Bulletin Canadienne d'Histoire de la Medecine (pp. 9-21). unapi

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