Two Students and a Corpse: The Semantics of Disgust in the Making of Colonial Knowledge (2018)
Ragab, Ahmed (Author)
History and Technology
Volume: 34
Issue: 1
Pages: 79-88
Publication date: 2018
Language: English
Edition Details: Special Issue: Thinking with the World: Histories of Science and Technology from the ‘Out There’
The central piece in Cairo medical school’s museum is a painting portraying the school’s first dissection lesson. Dissection was central to the agenda of the school’s founder, Antoine Barthelemy Clot (d. 1868). In Clot’s narrative, dissection was key to modern scientific education. In his writings, he chronicled what he believed to be his students’ resistance and disgust with the practice. This article investigates the emotional underwriting of colonial science, and explores the role played by disgust in constructing colonial narratives of progress and scientific authority, and in the postcolonial narratives of colonial and precolonial history. It argues that disgust, along with similar emotions, functions on a moral economy that underwrites and authorizes the production of colonial scientific authority.
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