Article ID: CBB906762766

Scientific Medicine in the Time of Cholera: The Johns Hopkins Ethos and US Friendly Power in North China, 1919 (2021)

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Abstract Vashti Bartlett, a Johns Hopkins nurse and member of the American Red Cross Commission to Siberia, was part of a global expansion of United States (US) influence before and after World War I. Through close examination of Bartlett’s extensive personal archives and her experiences during a 1919 cholera epidemic in Harbin, North China, we show how an individual could embody a “friendly” or “capillary” form of imperialist US power. Significantly, we identify in Bartlett yet another form that US friendly power could take: scientific medicine. White, wealthy, female, and American, in the context of her international nursing activities Bartlett identified principally as a scientific practitioner trained at Johns Hopkins where she internalized a set of scientific ideals that we associate with a particular “Hopkins ethos.” Her overriding scientific identity rendered her a useful and conscientious agent of US friendship policies in China in 1919.

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Authors & Contributors
Bonhomme, Edna
Jinbin Park
Jaimie Morse
D'Antonio, Patricia
Burnett, David Graham
Zhen, Cheng
Concepts
Medicine and politics
Medicine
Nurses and nursing
Imperialism
Public health
Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
20th century, late
20th century
Qing dynasty (China, 1644-1912)
18th century
Places
United States
China
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Basel (Switzerland)
Hawaii (U.S.)
New York City (New York, U.S.)
Institutions
Johns Hopkins University
Rockefeller Foundation
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