IsisCB Explore

Article ID: CBB001213545

Les faux-semblants d'une politique internationale: la Société des Nations et la lutte contre l'alcoolisme dans les mandats (1919--1930) (2013)

Canadian Bulletin of Medical History/Bulletin Canadienne d'Histoire de la Medecine
Volume: 29, no. 4
Issue: 4
Pages: 69-90

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

Outside Links

WorldCat

Google Scholar

JSTOR

Academia.edu

Medicine and politics Colonialism Public policy Alcoholism Alcohol Public health Germany, colonies 20th century, early League of Nations

Influenced by humanitarian colonial movements, the League of Nations imposed an anti-alcohol policy on the powers that administered the former German colonies as B mandates and C mandates. The policy is best understood by what is known today as an international agenda. Despite increasing doubts about the demographic arguments used to justify it, namely the supposed depopulation of the colonies by European alcohol imports, the Permanent Mandates Commission that supervised the governments of the various mandates insisted that mandatory administrations should enforce it. Faced with its own experts' uncertainties about the real incidence of alcoholism, and with the overall growth of alcohol imports in the mandates, the commission stuck nonetheless to its anti-alcohol agenda, exerting a definite normative influence on the way the colonial powers ruled the mandates.

...More

Included in

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

Citation URI

https://data.isiscb.org/isis/citation/CBB001213545/

Citations Indexes

Similar Citations

Article Bourmaud, Philippe; (2013)
Internationalizing Perspectives: Re-Reading Mandate History through a Health Policy Lens (/isis/citation/CBB001213542/)

Article Lachenal, Guillaume; (2013)
Médecine, comparaisons et échanges inter-impériaux dans le mandat camerounais: une histoire croisée franco-allemande de la mission Jamot (/isis/citation/CBB001213543/)

Article Anders Sevelsted; (2019)
Degeneration, Protestantism, and Social Democracy: The Case of Alcoholism and “Illiberal” Policies and Practices in Denmark 1900–43 (/isis/citation/CBB831518679/)

Article Walther, Daniel J.; (2013)
Sex, Public Health and Colonial Control: The Campaign against Venereal Diseases in Germany's Overseas Possessions, 1884--1914 (/isis/citation/CBB001213442/)

Thesis Neill, Deborah Joy; (2005)
Transnationalism in the Colonies: Cooperation, Rivalry, and Race in German and French Tropical Medicine, 1880--1930 (/isis/citation/CBB001560671/)

Book Osborn, Matthew Warner; (2014)
Rum Maniacs: Alcoholic Insanity in the Early American Republic (/isis/citation/CBB001422043/)

Article Neswald, Elizabeth; (2008)
“The Benefits of a Mechanics' Institute and the Blessing of Temperance.” Science and Temperance in 1840s Ireland (/isis/citation/CBB001023442/)

Thesis Metlay, Grischa Jeremy; (2010)
Learning from Drunk Monkeys: Expert Approaches to Alcohol and Drug Problems in Modern America (/isis/citation/CBB001567222/)

Article Jo Robertson; (2018)
Leprosy's Untainted Child (/isis/citation/CBB687936815/)

Book Roderick Phillips; (2014)
Alcohol: A History (/isis/citation/CBB951455504/)

Article Alex Mold; (2016)
‘Everybody Likes a Drink. Nobody Likes a Drunk’. Alcohol, Health Education and the Public in 1970s Britain (/isis/citation/CBB036531769/)

Thesis Erica O'Neil; (2016)
Fetal Risk, Federal Response: How Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Influenced the Adoption of Alcohol Health Warning Labels (/isis/citation/CBB757766325/)

Article Arner, Katherine; (2013)
Making Global Commerce into International Health Diplomacy: Consuls and Disease Control in the Age of Revolutions (/isis/citation/CBB001201444/)

Thesis Gonzalez, Stephanie; (2014)
The Double-Edged Sword: Smallpox Vaccination and the Politics of Public Health in Cuba (/isis/citation/CBB001567634/)

Book Beattie, James; (2011)
Empire and Environmental Anxiety: Health, Science, Art, and Conservation in South Asia and Australasia, 1800--1920 (/isis/citation/CBB001320917/)

Book Rodríguez Ocaña, Esteban; Ballester Añón, Rosa; Perdiguero, Enrique; Medina Doménech, Rosa María; Molero Mesa, Jorge; (2003)
La acción médico-social contra el paludismo en la España metropolitana y colonial del siglo XX (/isis/citation/CBB000410654/)

Thesis Arman Azimi; (2022)
Petroleum, Health, and Power: The Anglo-Persian Oil Company and the Colonial Dimensions of Company Medicine in Iran, 1902–1931 (/isis/citation/CBB992804588/)

Thesis Blecher, Robert Ian; (2002)
The Medicalization of Sovereignty: Medicine, Public Health, and Political Authority in Syria, 1861--1936 (/isis/citation/CBB001562515/)

Article Elliott M. Reichardt; (2020)
‘To Awaken the Medical and Hygienic Conscience of the People’: Cultivating Enlightened Citizenship through Free Public Healthcare in Haiti from 1915–34 (/isis/citation/CBB524291036/)

Article Christian Strother; (2014)
“A Danger Which More or Less Threatens Us All”: Yellow fever and the politics of disease control in Senegal 1890–1914 (/isis/citation/CBB476663717/)

Comments

{{ comment.created_by.username }} on {{ comment.created_on | date:'medium' }}