Article ID: CBB001552714

Cleansing the World of the Germ of Laziness: Hygiene, Sanitation, and the Javanese Population in Suriname (2014)

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Hoefte, Rosemarijn (Author)


História, Ciências, Saúde---Manguinhos
Volume: 21, no. 4
Issue: 4
Pages: 1437-1445


Publication Date: 2014
Edition Details: [Translated title.] In Portuguese.
Language: Portuguese

In 1915 the Rockefeller Foundation took its hookworm eradication campaign to Suriname, but was soon disappointed because of opposition from its main target group: the Javanese. Moreover, authorities and planters objected to the construction of latrines because of the costs and their belief that the Javanese were “unhygienic”. In describing the labor migration from Java to Suriname, I show that this “lack of hygiene” was closely related to the system's organization. I argue that uncleanliness was the consequence of harmful socio-economic and ecological conditions. Secondly I suggest that even though the Foundation did not manage to cleanse Suriname of hookworm, its educational efforts, its emphasis on prevention, and its training of local health workers probably had more impact than Rockefeller officials thought.

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Authors & Contributors
Palmer, Steven Paul
Rodríguez Ocaña, Esteban
Anderson, Warwick H.
Balinska, Marta Aleksandra
Birn, Anne-Emanuelle
Farley, John
Journals
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Asian Medicine: Tradition and Modernity
Bulletin of the History of Medicine
Canadian Bulletin of Medical History/Bulletin Canadienne d'Histoire de la Medecine
Cronos: Cuadernos Valencianos de Historia de la Medicina y de la Ciencia
Dynamis: Acta Hispanica ad Medicinae Scientiarumque Historiam Illustrandam
Publishers
Duke University Press
Oxford University Press
University of Michigan Press
Concepts
Public health
Parasitic diseases
International cooperation
Colonialism
Medicine
Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence
People
Chagas, Carlos
Rockefeller, John Davison, Jr.
Yang, Chongrui
Time Periods
20th century, early
Places
China
Spain
Brazil
Caribbean
Mexico
Philippines
Institutions
Rockefeller Foundation
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
League of Nations
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