Public health and tropical modernity: the combat against sleeping sickness in Portuguese Guinea, 1945-1974
Until the establishment of the “Commission for the study of and combat against sleeping sickness” (Missão de estudo e combate à doença do sono) in 1945, underfunded and understaffed health services had not been a priority for the colonial administration in Portuguese Guinea. The Commission not only...
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| description | Until the establishment of the “Commission for the study of and combat against sleeping sickness” (Missão de estudo e combate à doença do sono) in 1945, underfunded and understaffed health services had not been a priority for the colonial administration in Portuguese Guinea. The Commission not only implemented endemic disease control in the territory under the auspices of metropolitan institutions, but also provided preventive public healthcare to the local population. Its relative success in reducing the negative impact of Human African Trypanosomiasis turned the colony into an apparent model of tropical modernity. In the process, the local evolution of the disease was marginalized, despite the tacit but contested recognition by some health professionals of the role of popular healthcare. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-ecb446b10f604a7588daf3936a88edd02025-08-20T03:39:09ZengFundação Oswaldo Cruz, Casa de Oswaldo CruzHistória, Ciências, Saúde: Manguinhos1678-47582014-06-0121264166610.1590/S0104-59702014005000013S0104-59702014000200641Public health and tropical modernity: the combat against sleeping sickness in Portuguese Guinea, 1945-1974Philip Jan HavikUntil the establishment of the “Commission for the study of and combat against sleeping sickness” (Missão de estudo e combate à doença do sono) in 1945, underfunded and understaffed health services had not been a priority for the colonial administration in Portuguese Guinea. The Commission not only implemented endemic disease control in the territory under the auspices of metropolitan institutions, but also provided preventive public healthcare to the local population. Its relative success in reducing the negative impact of Human African Trypanosomiasis turned the colony into an apparent model of tropical modernity. In the process, the local evolution of the disease was marginalized, despite the tacit but contested recognition by some health professionals of the role of popular healthcare.http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0104-59702014000200641&lng=en&tlng=endoença do sonomedicina tropical e colonialsaúde públicapráticas locaisGuiné Portuguesa |
| spellingShingle | Philip Jan Havik Public health and tropical modernity: the combat against sleeping sickness in Portuguese Guinea, 1945-1974 História, Ciências, Saúde: Manguinhos doença do sono medicina tropical e colonial saúde pública práticas locais Guiné Portuguesa |
| title | Public health and tropical modernity: the combat against sleeping sickness in Portuguese Guinea, 1945-1974 |
| title_full | Public health and tropical modernity: the combat against sleeping sickness in Portuguese Guinea, 1945-1974 |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Public health and tropical modernity: the combat against sleeping sickness in Portuguese Guinea, 1945-1974 |
| title_short | Public health and tropical modernity: the combat against sleeping sickness in Portuguese Guinea, 1945-1974 |
| title_sort | public health and tropical modernity the combat against sleeping sickness in portuguese guinea 1945 1974 |
| topic | doença do sono medicina tropical e colonial saúde pública práticas locais Guiné Portuguesa |
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