Article ID: CBB001551014

Inter-imperial Learning and African Health Care in Portuguese Angola in the Interwar Period (2015)

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In the 1920s, the Angolan health services eventually established a long-debated programme of African health care called Assistência Médica aos Indígenas (AMI). This article shows that, aside from economic and humanitarian considerations, the international critique of Portugal's colonial policies and ensuing anxieties that the country might lose its colonies were decisive in convincing political decision makers in Lisbon to provide the necessary funding for this project. The article's main argument is that the Angolan AMI programme was profoundly and deliberately shaped by processes of inter-imperial comparison and borrowing. Efforts towards the institutionalisation of inter-imperial learning and collaboration, though backed by international organisations such as the League of Nations' Health Organisation, were often not or only partially successful, as they were caught in the complex interplay between nationalism and internationalism. Inter-imperial hierarchies of prestige conditioned whether inter-imperial borrowings were made explicit or hidden.

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Authors & Contributors
Djordjevic, Darja
Farquharson, Jennifer
Evguenia Davidova
Yanikda, Yücel
Higgs, Catherine
Varanda, Jorge
Concepts
Medicine and politics
Health care
Nationalism
Colonialism
Public health
Medicine
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
21st century
20th century, late
20th century
Places
Africa
São Tomé and Príncipe
Rwanda
Middle and Near East
Angola
São Paulo (Brazil)
Institutions
League of Nations
Rockefeller Foundation
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