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

Girouard, Kim (Author)
Lamb, Susan (Author)

European Journal for the History of Medicine and Health
Volume: 78
Issue: 1
Pages: 96-127
Publication date: 2021

URI: https://brill.com/view/journals/ehmh/78/1/article-p96_96.xml

DOI: 10.1163/26667711-bja10003

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Medicine and politics Medicine Imperialism Nurses and nursing 20th century, early China United States Bartlett, Vashti Johns Hopkins University

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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