Article ID: CBB798109918

Beyond “White Medicine”: Bubonic Plague and Health Interventions in Colonial Lagos (2019)

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While studies have unveiled the implications of the bubonic plague outbreak in colonial Lagos in the areas of town planning, environmental health and trade, there is a dearth of scholarly writings on the multiplex nature of the biomedical, Christian, Muslim, non-Christian and non-Muslim African re-sponses to the epidemic outbreak. Based on the historical analysis of colonial medical records, newspaper reports, interviews and the literature, this paper concludes that the multiplex and transcultural nature of local responses to the bubonic plague in Lagos disavow the Western biomedical triumphalist claims to epidemic control in Africa during colonial rule.

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Authors & Contributors
Junaidi
Almeida, Maria Antónia Pires de
Chase, Marilyn
Cornejo, Edward Victoriano
Ekanem, Inyang A.
Espinosa, Mariola
Journals
Korean Journal of Medical History
Public Understanding of Science
Social History of Medicine
Medicina Historica
History and Technology
International Journal of African Historical Studies
Publishers
New York, City University of
Random House Trade Paperbacks
University of Chicago Press
University of Pittsburgh Press
Concepts
Epidemics
Colonialism
Plague
Public health
Medicine
Disease and diseases
People
Haffkine, Waldemar Mordecai
Matignon, Jean-Jacques
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
21st century
Qajar dynasty, Iran (1794-1925)
Places
India
Nigeria
Korea
Indonesia
East Africa
Iran
Institutions
Dutch East India Company
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