The black scourge? Race and the Rockefeller Foundation’s tuberculosis commission in interwar Jamaica
From 1927 to 1942, the Rockefeller Foundation ran a tuberculosis commission in Jamaica that researched the epidemiology of the disease, examined the efficacy of a vaccine with heat-killed tubercle bacilli, and offered basic treatment to tuberculosis sufferers. Drawing upon diaries and scientific wri...
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| description | From 1927 to 1942, the Rockefeller Foundation ran a tuberculosis commission in Jamaica that researched the epidemiology of the disease, examined the efficacy of a vaccine with heat-killed tubercle bacilli, and offered basic treatment to tuberculosis sufferers. Drawing upon diaries and scientific writings by the staff employed by the commission, among other sources, this article explores the role that race played in the tuberculosis commission. It assesses how race shaped the research conducted by the commission, how it informed staff interactions and staff/patient relations, and the clash and/or confluence of “imported” and local racial ideas in the commission’s work. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-de75cb216a3b46b5a4c6d0fc3383b5b32025-08-20T02:54:50ZengFundação Oswaldo Cruz, Casa de Oswaldo CruzHistória, Ciências, Saúde: Manguinhos1678-47582441071108710.1590/s0104-59702017000500012S0104-59702017000401071The black scourge? Race and the Rockefeller Foundation’s tuberculosis commission in interwar JamaicaHenrice AltinkFrom 1927 to 1942, the Rockefeller Foundation ran a tuberculosis commission in Jamaica that researched the epidemiology of the disease, examined the efficacy of a vaccine with heat-killed tubercle bacilli, and offered basic treatment to tuberculosis sufferers. Drawing upon diaries and scientific writings by the staff employed by the commission, among other sources, this article explores the role that race played in the tuberculosis commission. It assesses how race shaped the research conducted by the commission, how it informed staff interactions and staff/patient relations, and the clash and/or confluence of “imported” and local racial ideas in the commission’s work.http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0104-59702017000401071&lng=en&tlng=entuberculosisraceCaribbeanglobal healthRockefeller Foundation |
| spellingShingle | Henrice Altink The black scourge? Race and the Rockefeller Foundation’s tuberculosis commission in interwar Jamaica História, Ciências, Saúde: Manguinhos tuberculosis race Caribbean global health Rockefeller Foundation |
| title | The black scourge? Race and the Rockefeller Foundation’s tuberculosis commission in interwar Jamaica |
| title_full | The black scourge? Race and the Rockefeller Foundation’s tuberculosis commission in interwar Jamaica |
| title_fullStr | The black scourge? Race and the Rockefeller Foundation’s tuberculosis commission in interwar Jamaica |
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| title_short | The black scourge? Race and the Rockefeller Foundation’s tuberculosis commission in interwar Jamaica |
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| topic | tuberculosis race Caribbean global health Rockefeller Foundation |
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