Article ID: CBB086199722

The Colonial Situation in Practice: Food at the Albert Schweitzer Hospital, Lambaréné 1924–65 (2020)

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This case study provides insights into how a hospital in colonial Africa was provisioned with food, while it also sheds light onto daily life in a colonial situation. The article connects the rich sources from the Albert Schweitzer Hospital with the social history of Gabon. It demonstrates how the institution mirrors the food problems of the territory by investigating what doctors, nurses, visitors, and patients considered an ideal diet and by examining what efforts and practices were upheld to meet these ideals. In order to illuminate these issues, the paper sketches out how different foods (plantains, rice, palm-oil, fruit, and fish) were acquired or produced on site and how these processes changed over time. In this manner, practices and discourses on nutrition and health exemplify the inauthenticity of the colonial situation and reveal how economic priorities influenced food supply in colonial Gabon.

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Authors & Contributors
Wallach, Jennifer Jensen
Bezerra, José Arimatea Barros
Calatayud Giner, Salvador
Eden, Trudy A.
Garcia, Rosa Wanda Diez
Godoy, Andresa Michele
Journals
História, Ciências, Saúde---Manguinhos
Economic History Review
History and Technology
Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History
Journal of Global History
Journal of Interdisciplinary History
Publishers
Rowman & Littlefield
University of Pittsburgh
Cambridge University Press
Northern Illinois University Press
University of North Carolina Press
University of Wisconsin at Madison
Concepts
Food and foods
Nutrition; dietetics
Rice and rice industry
Colonialism
Public health
Agriculture
People
Funk, Casimir
Williams, Robert R.
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
20th century, early
17th century
18th century
15th century
Places
United States
Spain
Americas
Africa
Brazil
Philippines
Institutions
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
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