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Global Health in Historical Perspective:
The Uses of History RobertaBivins
WellcomeLecturerintheHistoryofMedicineCardiffUniversity20February2007
PreparedaspartofaneducaAonprojectoftheGlobalHealthEducaAonConsorAum
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Learning objectives
1. Discoverthepre‐historyof‘globalhealth’2. Developstrategiesforusinghistoryasaglobalhealth
‘laboratory’– Viacomparinghistorical&contemporaryresponses
toglobalhealthproblems– Viaassessingtheefficacy,thesuccesses,andthe
failuresofdifferenthealthintervenAonsandstrategies
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‘Global health’ in the west: everything old is new again
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‘Global health’ in the west: everything old is new again
Contemporaryconcernswithglobalhealtho7enstressthenoveltyoftheprocessesinvolved.Butinfacttherearefewdifferencesinkindbetweenour‘globalized’world,andtheglobalworldinhabitedbyourpredecessorssinceatleastthe18thcentury.
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‘Global health’ in the west: everything old is new again (Cont)
• Thinkaboutit:Are‐immigraAon,‐travel,‐globaltrade,‐globalcommunicaAons,‐war,‐famine,‐orinfecAousdiseasesnewphenomena?
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‘Global health’ in the West: Key events I
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Left image: Adhémar de Monteil (Adhémar du Puy) charging the Saracens, brandishing the Sainte Lance d'Antioche. Medieval illumination from Wikicommons Right Image: ‘The Apothecary’ from De Materia Medica des Dioskurides, The York Project
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‘Global health’ in the West: Key events I
• Crusades‐‐[c.1095‐c.1291]EuropeansandArabsalikegainedfirsthandknowledgeofothermedicalsystemsandtherapies,andwereexposedtonewdiseases
“TheFrankishgovernorofMunaytra,intheLebanesemountains,wrotetomyunclethesultan…askinghimtosendaphysiciantotreatseveralurgentcases.MyuncleselectedoneofourChris@andoctors…Hewasgoneforjustafewdays,thenreturnedhome.…Webesiegedhimwithques@ons…”
EmirUsamahc1140
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‘Global health’ in the West: Key events I
• Renaissance‐‐[c14th‐16thcentury]the‘rebirth’inEuropeofclassicalmedicineandnaturalsciences,enabledbythemasscross‐culturalexchangeoftextsandprac@cespreserved,refined,correctedandexpandedbytheIslamicworld.
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‘Global health’ in the West: Key events II
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‘Global health’ in the West: Key events II
• AgeofexploraIon:fromthe‘Columbianexchange’,totheestablishmentofEuropeantradingpostsandthense`lementsinIndia,ChinaandAfrica,tothe‘TriangleTrade’‐‐thiswastheerainwhichtheseedsoftoday’ssingleglobalepidemiologicalenvironmentwereplanted.
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The ‘Columbian exchange’
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To Americas From Americas Smallpox, measles, malaria (falciparum), plague, tuberculosis
Syphilis (probably), yellow fever, yaws
Cattle, horses, wheat, bananas, coffee, sugar cane
Potatoes, tomatoes. maize, squashes, peppers, tobacco
African slaves, European conquistadors, settlers
Precious metals
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The Triangle Trade
• Tradegoods,weapons,laterrum,fromEuropeandNorthAmericatoAfrica(tobuyslaves)
• SlavesfromAfricatoNorthandSouthAmerica(tolaboronplantaAons)
• RawmaterialsproducedwithslavelabortoNorthAmerica,Europe(tofeedindustrialgrowthandproducAonandpayformoreslaves)
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‘Global Health’ in the West:
Key events III The Age
of Empire
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Impact of empire: Exports from the West I
• diseases‐‐e.g.tuberculosis,sexuallytransmi`edinfecAons,‘childhood’diseaseslikemeasles
• diseaseenvironments‐‐ciAes,plantaAons,factories,mines
• people‐‐traders,soldiers,convicts,missionaries,doctors,bureaucrats,families
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Impact of empire: Exports from the West II
• medicalideas:thesecametostructureinterpretaAonsofnon‐westernculturesandpeoples
– ‘Race’– RecapitulaAon– Polygenesis– ‘Survivalofthefi`est’
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Medicine and ‘Imperial’ Ideas
• ‘Race’CONSIDER:ThebiologicalracesweredefinedinevoluAonaryandessenAalisttermsandinopposiAontoeachother.Ifyoudefineoneraceasincapableofreason,orchild‐like,ornaturallyslavish,whatimpactisthatgoingtohaveonyourgovernmentalpolicies?Andifyouthinkofaraceinthatway,willyoueverseeitsmembersascapableofself‐governance?WhatkindsofinsAtuAonswillyouworktobuild,andwhowillbeincludedinthatprocess?
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Thoughts about ‘Race’
“Anatomyandphysiologyhavebeeninterrogated,andtheresponseisthattheEthiopianorCanaaniteisunfi`edfromhisorganizaAonandthephysiologicallawspredicatedonthatorganizaAon,fortheresponsibleduAesofafreeman,butlikethechild,isonlyfi`edforastateofdependenceandsubordinaAon.”
Dr.SamuelCartwright1850
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Race and Imperialism
“TakeuptheWhiteMan'sburden‐‐Sendforththebestyebreed‐‐Go,bindyoursonstoexile
Toserveyour‘capAves'need;Towait,inheavyharness,Onflu`eredfolkandwild‐‐
Yournew‐caughtsullenpeoples,Halfdevilandhalfchild.”
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Rudyard Kipling, ‘The White Man’s Burden’ 1899
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Impact of empire: Exports from the West III
• medicalinsItuIons:hospitals,clinics,laboratories,professionalassociaAons,publichealthcampaigns
• medicalpracIces:vaccinaAon,quaranAne,physicalexaminaAons,dissecAon,bacteriology
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Traits of Colonial Medicine I
• EmphasisonuniversalisingclaimsanddisregardforculturaldisAncAveness(inotherwords,medicineshouldbepracAcedthesamewayeverywhere)
• CreaAonandreproducAonofraceandgenderstereotypespathologizingthebodiesofcolonialpeople
• UsedasasourceofpoliAcalauthorityandsocialcontrol,legiAmaAon
• AimedatcreaAngandreinforcingEuropeanpoliAcal,culturalandsocialhegemony
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Traits of Colonial Medicine II
• Profoundroleof(tropical)environmentindeterminingmedicalprioriAes,interpretaAons,policies
• Medicinestate‐oriented,state‐dependent,expressiveofimperialistideologies
• Closelinkswithmilitaryestablishment
• Ooenenclavist,privilegingEuropeanhealthoverthatofaboriginalpeoples
• SanitaryandpublichealthmeasureshavestrongcomponentofpopulaAoncontrol
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Exports from the West III Colonial Medicine on the Ground
AspracAcedinanAfricancolony:• Mostlytropicalclimates‐‐>highEuropeanmortalityandmorbidity;
diseasesassumedtobedifferentinkindtoEuropeandiseases‐‐>
• EmergenceofnewmedicalspecialAestomanagenoveldiseaseenAAes,addresslackofsanitaryinfrastructure,promoteimperialinterests
• Li`leinterestintraining‘primiAve’locals(seeassumpAonsabout‘race’)
• Focusonurbanenvironments,Europeanenclaves,andonthehealthofworkerstotheexclusionofotherpopulaAons
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Impact of empire: Exports from the West IV
• IdeasofciIzenshipandidenIty:modelsofcolonizingnaAonsas‘home’fortheirimperialaswellastheirnaAonalsubjects.‐‐>Thisinturnwouldinformfuturepa`ernsofmigraAon,asnotedinthemigrant/minorityrightscampaigners’phrase,‘Weareherebecauseyouwerethere’.
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Impact of empire: Imports from Empire
• Diseases:especiallycholera,plagueandinlate20thc.smallpox,drugresistanttuberculosis
• ‘Rawmaterials’:neworganisms,diets,modelsofvector‐transmission,knowledge(includingabouttheresultsofpublichealthintervenAons)
• PopulaIonsandtheirowncultures,genotypes,cuisines,diets,medicines
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Imports from Empire “ManyoftheChinesestoresinourAmericanciAeskeepasupplyofChinesedrugs,andallofthemsellChineseproprietarymedicines…compoundedintheCantondrugshops.Thesearealwaysneatlypackedandlabelled,andaccompaniedwithprinteddirecAonsfortheiruse.Butthereisooenaregulardrugbusiness…containedinnumerousboxesanddrawersononesideoftheshop.Here,ooen,aChinesedoctor…hashisoffice.”StewartCulin,ThePrac@ceofMedicinebytheChineseinAmerica,1887)
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Imports from Empire ChinesemedicineinanAustralianepidemic
• Inthe1870s,diphtheriakilled4,574inVictoria,mainlychildren;westerndrugsineffecAve;• AustraliansturnedtonewlyarrivedChineseimmigrants,andtheirtradiAonalmedicines;• Onesuchremedyproducedapparentcures;ingredients(butnotmethodofapplicaAon)scienAficallytestedatbehestofAustralianGovt.,foundtobeharmlessbutnotunique;• AustraliandoctorsimmediatelysoughtlegislaAontobarChinesemedicalpracAce(andeliminatethecompeAAon).
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Imports from Empire: what does this Australian example tell us?
• MigrantsbringexpertknowledgeandpracAcesaswellasmicro‐andmacro‐organisms,foods,etc.
• Historically,westerneliteswerewillingtoextractrawmaterialsfromtheircolonies/subjugatedcultures,butnottoacceptexperAse.Hasthisattudechanged?WhatimpactmightithaveonglobalhealthiniAaAves?
• Publicooenmoreflexibleandopentocross‐culturalmedicalexperAsethanprofessionals.CanthispragmaAsmbearesourceforglobalhealthwork?MightexpertsunderesAmateit?
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‘Global health’ & the west: key events after WW II
• EmergenceofglobalhealthorganizaAons,publicandprivate
• DecolonizaAon‐‐theendofempire?• TheageoferadicaAon?‐‐globaleffortsfromsmallpoxtomalaria
• MassmigraAon,massairtravel,andthenewglobalizaAon
• Emergentandre‐emergentdiseases
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Addressing Problems in Global Health:
How to use History
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Addressing Problems in Global Health: How to use History (Cont)
• Comparehistorical&contemporaryresponsestoglobalhealthproblems
• Assesslong‐termefficacyofdifferenthealthintervenAonsandstrategies
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Addressing Problems in Global Health: How to use History (Cont)
Comparehistorical&contemporaryresponsestoglobalhealthproblems
Why?
Becausehindsightis20/20!
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- Addressing Problems in Global Health: How to use History (Cont)
• PoliAcal,economicandsocialforcesinfluencingthoseresponsesaremorevisiblewhenmorecompleteinformaAonisavailbleaboutthem
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Case Study:
Responding to tuberculosis in migrants
UK 1948-68
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National Library of Medicine
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Context 1: General
• DecolonizaAonwellunderway,butnostatutoryimmigraAoncontrolsonciAzensofCommonwealthnaAons(unAl1962)
• UKexperiencingmassin‐migraAonofraciallydisAncAvepopulaAonsforthefirstAme– ‘WindrushgeneraAon’ofserviceworkersrecruitedfromWestIndies
– Early‘chainmigraAon’fromruralIndianSubconAnenttourbanindustrialsetngs
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Context 2: Medical
• Tax‐fundedNaAonalHealthServicefreeatpointofdeliverytoallUKresidents,includingrecentarrivals;majorinvestmentsinpublichealth,massradiologicalscreening
• TBrates,fallingsince19thC,beginningtoriseagaininurbanareaswithlargeimmigrantpopulaAons
• Domiciliarychemotherapynotyetstandardforall;hospitaltherapysAllmandatedfor‘wayward’‐‐i.e.,workingpoor,immigrants,non‐whites
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TB & Immigration: Public Fears
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Letter to Minister of Health 1955
“I must stress the concern we feel with regard to the coloured people in our City. As Minister of Health we feel you should make this problem a priority. … they should be subject to a strict Medical examination. … We are spending thousands of pounds fighting [TB] yet these people are bringing T.B. …into the country. … Where is this going to end and what of our standard of Health? Are we going to watch this being undermined without at least trying to uphold it?”
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TB, Immigrants & the Media
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“Foreign TB cases are depriving us of hospital beds
Immigrants suffering from tuberculosis are being given priority for hospital beds over British people … ‘Residents with tuberculosis are being denied medical attention in hospital beds’ ”
Birmingham Gazette, 6/2/56
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TB, Immigrants & the Medical Profession
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“We have spent an enormous amount of energy and money in attempting to rid this region of TB and it is being imported into the country without our being able to do anything about it. For reasons I cannot understand, the Ministry of Health refuses to screen … – I could understand it if it were the Ministry of Disease instead of a Ministry of Health.”
Hospital Medical Director, London, 1953
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TB, Immigrants and the Ministry of Health
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“We have of course for years been living with the situation in which people get infected with TB by immigrants…The situation… has not been found to place an intolerable burden on the country’s Health Services, nor to lead to great public outcry. It was the great increase in immigrants from countries like Pakistan (where TB is rife) which led us to feel that some action should be taken.” B. Fraser to Enoch Powell, Minister of Health, 1963
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So: why didn’t the UK follow the examples of Canada, Australia and the United States, and
establish a medical border against the ‘immigrant menace’?
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Technical Problems
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1. Ethics: “Once a case has been diagnosed as open T.B., the person cannot properly be put back and sent home in an aircraft” Ministry of Health memo 1962
2. Lack of resources: screening demanded scarce radiologists, but trapped them in boring dead-end jobs; and UK had no confidence in non-UK exams
3. Constraints of time and space: instituting border controls in Britain’s busy airports would create unacceptable delays for passengers and airlines even if not subject to screening
But these problems were solvable, albeit not without economic cost to the UK Government.
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Political & Social Problems
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“It would presumably be politically difficult to insist on X-Ray only in the case of nationals of certain countries … In particular, any differentiation might lead to accusations of colour discrimination.
Commonwealth Relations Office to Ministry of Health, 1962
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Political & Social Problems
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“However reasonable the scheme may be, it will involve accusations of discrimination on the basis of colour. Recent experience has taught us how absurdly touchy the coloured Commonwealth countries can be when differential measures of health control are imposed.”
Commonwealth Relations Office to Ministry of Health, 1963
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In the end, the UK did not impose exclusionary medical checks until after statutory bans on
racial discrimination were in place AND it had become clear that the UK’s political and
economic interests were to be primarily in Europe, rather than the Commonwealth.
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Questions to think about:
• Whatrolewasplayedbymedicalknowledgeanddatainthis‘globalhealth’decision?
• ComparingUKpolicyandTBratestothoseofcountrieswhichdidinsAtuteexclusionarymedicalchecksinthisperiod,domedicalchecksonmigrantsma`er?
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Case Study: Smallpox
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Case study: Smallpox
Smallpox offers a particularly rich example of global health as a historical phenomenon:
• smallpox has been specifically identified and studied by many cultures for millennia;
• smallpox has played a visible part in global exchanges both of knowledge and of microbes for centuries (e.g. the Columbian Exchange).
For a quick summary of smallpox facts, see the Center for Disease Control’s webpage: http://www.bt.cdc.gov/agent/smallpox/overview/disease-facts.asp
Smallpox is contagious under conditions of direct, relatively prolonged person-to-person contact, but can occasionally be spread by disease matter, or by air in certain stages of the disease and in enclosed environments. Each infected person might be expected to infect 5-6 (generally intimate or household) contacts over the course of the disease. Fatality rates are about 30%, though severe scarring is much more common, and smallpox can cause blindness.
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Case study: Smallpox
• Two basic kinds of smallpox: variola majora, variola minora
• Smallpox is caused by the orthopoxvirus variola and has no specific cure
• Smallpox symptoms include the characteristic rash, high fever, head and body aches
Child infected with smallpox in Bangladesh 1973. Smallpox eradicated in Bangladesh 1977. Source: http://phil.cdc.gov/phil_images/20030304/27/PHIL_3265_lores.jpg
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Treating Smallpox
Smallpox has a long medical history. Humans have responded to its threat with
• PRAYER • PALIATIVE CARE • VARIOLATION • VACCINATION and in the late 20th century, • CAMPAIGNS FOR GLOBAL
ERADICATION
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Smallpox: before vaccination • C.1000BCChinesemedicaltextsdescribevariolaAon;• 6thc.ADwri`enaccountsofsmallpoxpandemicsinEuropeandAsia;
• c.1500ADEuropeansandAfricanslavesintroducesmallpoxtoAmericas,withupto50%morbiditytotheir‘virginsoil’populaAons
– smallpoxinfectedblanketsdeliberatelyusedbycoloniststospreadthedisease
• LadyMaryWortleyMontagueobservesvariolaAoninTurkey,introducestechniquetoEuropec.1718
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From vaccination to eradication • 1796Jennerexperimentswithwell‐knownfactdairy‐maidsexposedtocow‐poxwereimmunetosmallpox;firstdeliberatevaccinaAonswithcow‐poxserumperformed.
• 19thc.LegislaAvemilestonesandsetbacks• 1950sheat‐stablefreeze‐driedvaccinebecomesavailable;reliablevaccinaAonwithoutrefrigeraAon
• 1960sbifurcatedneedleintroducedforbe`er‘takes’
• 1960sWestAfricanworkersdevelop‘surveillanceandcontainment’(‘ringvaccinaAon’)strategy,toreplaceimpracAcala`emptsat‘massvaccinaAon’indevelopingworld.
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WHO and Eradication
• 1966WorldHealthAssemblyvotes$2.5millionspecialbudgetforeradicaAonofsmallpox
• 1967eradicaAonprogrambegins:30countriesendemicforsmallpox,12moresubjecttofrequentimportaAon,4majorreservoirsofdisease[Asia,Brazil,Indonesia,sub‐SaharanAfrica].
• Approximately10millioncasesworld‐wide• 1980Worlddeclaredsmallpoxfree.
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Why did the smallpox campaign succeed? 1.Natureofthedisease:well‐known,comparaAvelyeasytorecognize(atleastforexperienceddoctors);incubaAon,contagiousperiodswell‐knownandlimited;long‐termimmunitypossible;2.EffecAve,inexpensive,andfairlystablevaccineavailable;3.Riskandeconomiccostsofsporadicoutbreaksinnon‐endemicnaAonsencouragedglobal,ratherthanstrictlynaAonalacAon;4.AcAonwasvoluntary,ratherthancompulsory‐‐butcarrot(e.g.vaccinaAonnecessarytogainpassportorentrytosomenaAons)andsAck(e.g.military‐runmassvaccinaAonacAviAesduringepidemics)approaches,aswellashealtheducaAon,encouragedacceptanceofvaccinaAon.
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Question: Why have NO other global eradication campaigns succeeded?
Malaria?Polio?Tuberculosis?Consider• East/WestandNorth/SouthpoliAcs,• thecoststonon‐endemicnaAonsoferadicaAonascomparedtoexclusion,
• thenatureofthemicro‐andvectororganismsinvolved,
• therelaAveease/difficultyofrapiddiagnosis,• thetechnologiesavailabletoeradicatorsintheabsenceofavaccine.
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Case Study: Globalization: the shock of the new or old news?
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Globalization and migration: old news, old anxieties
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Globalization and global disease: old news
• CholeraoneoffirstgovernmentallyandinsAtuAonallyrecognizedcasesof‘globaldisease’
• 6classicpandemicsfrom19thcon,followingcolonizaAonand1stwaveofcholeraglobalizaAon
• 1definiteand1suspectedpandemicin2ndwaveglobalizaAon‐‐includingElTorstrain,whichhasfoundnon‐humanaquaAcvectors(duetoenvironmentaldegradaAonand‘hotsystems’thuscreated?)
Sowhatdoesanddoesn’twork?
See Kelley Lee and Richard Dodgson, ‘Globalization and Cholera: Implications for global governance’ in Kelley Lee, ed., Health Impacts of Globalization: Towards Global Governance (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002): 123-14.
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Techniques to halt the spread of cholera
IneffecIve(whyarethesesAllpopular?):• QuaranAneofaffectedregions,ciAes,ports,bodies• Exclusionof‘suspect’groups,foods• PortmedicalinspecAons
EffecIve(whydon’tweusethesemore?):• IntroducAonofpurewatersuppliesinendemiclocaAons
• IntroducAonofbe`ersanitaAoninendemiclocaAons• SupportforimprovedenvironmentalandagriculturalcondiAonsinendemicregions
• EducaAonaboutfoodandtoilethygieneforall
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Globalization: So what IS new?
• Paceofchange,speedofpassage• MasscommunicaAons
• MassmigraAon(southtonorth,easttowest)
• FormalizedandgloballyrecognizedinternaAonalhealthbodies
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Historical approaches to use and build on: exploring history’s
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• Historiansusedifferentstrategiestoproduceevidenceabouthealth,disease,andmedicalpracAcesinthepast.Here,we’lllookatfourwhichproduceinformaAonrelevantto‘globalhealth’
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1. Studies of specific sources of morbidity
HistoriansusingthisapproachscruAnize:• globalepidemics,pastandpresente.g.smallpox,cholera,
influenza,HIV‐AIDS• persistentsourcesofendemicity–e.g.,malaria,tuberculosis• pa`ernsofchronicandgeneAcdiseases‐‐e.g.,noninsulin‐
dependentdiabetesmellitus,sicklecell,obesity
SUCH STUDIES PROMOTE A DEEPER UNDERSTANDING OF EXISTING CO-FACTORS OF MORBIDITY & THE IMPACT OF EARLIER ATTEMPTS TO ADDRESS THEM.
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2. Studies of institutions and entities that affect health and health policy
Studiesusingthisapproachexamine:• theroleofglobaltradingcompanies/militariesinthespreadofdiseases(e.g.cholera)
• theimpactoftheWHO,naAonalgovts,privatechariAesineradicaAonefforts(e.g.smallpox)
• thehistoricroleofcorporateenAAesinpromoAnghealthyorunhealthybehaviors
SUCH STUDIES RENDER VISIBLE THE DIVERSITY OF ACTORS AND RANGE OF INTERESTS INVOLVED IN GLOBAL HEALTH POLICY MAKING
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3. Studies comparing historical and contemporary responses to persistent global health challenges
Studiesusingthisapproachmight:
• ComparepastandpresentresponsestomorbiditylinkedtomassmigraAon
• ExaminetherelaAveefficacyofhistoricandcurrentpublichealthstrategiesforcounteringepidemicandendemicdisease
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SUCH STUDIES ILLUMINATE CONTINUITIES & CHANGES IN PUBLIC & POLITICAL ATTITUDES TOWARDS GLOBAL HEALTH, HEALTH RISKS AND
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4. Study and evaluate cross-cultural exchanges of knowledge/practice
Studiesusingthisapproach:
• ComparetransmissionofmedicalknowledgeEasttoWest,andWesttoEast
• AssesseffecAveandineffecAveresponsestomedical‘cultureclashes’betweenimmigrantsandtheirclinicians,postWWII
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SUCH STUDIES ILLUSTRATE FUNDAMENTAL CHARACTERISTICS OF DIFFERENT MEDICAL SYSTEMS AND EFFECTIVE / INEFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES IN GLOBAL HEALTH
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Summary • Healthandmedicinehavebeenglobalformostofhumanhistory;fewsituaAonsarisetodayforwhichwedonothavehistoricalprecedent.
• ResponsestoglobalhealthproblemstooarerarelyenArelynovel.
• Therefore,itmaybeofusetopeopleworkinginthefieldofglobalhealthtoexaminehistoricalevidenceaboutproblems,soluAons,andco‐factorsastheyaddresstheglobalhealthchallengesweallfacetoday.
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General References • M.Adas,MachinesastheMeasureofMen,1989• D.ArnoldColonizingtheBody,1993• R.Bivins,Alterna@vemedicine?AHistory,2007• A.Fairchild,ScienceattheBorders,2003• A.Fadiman,TheSpiritCatchesYouandYouFallDown,1998
• M.Harrison,Diseaseandthemodernworld,2004• MarksandWorboys(eds),Migrants,Minori@esandHealth,1997• SeealsoCUGHmodulesonsmallpox,tuberculosis
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Credits
RobertaBivinsWelcomeLecturerintheHistoryofMedicine
CardiffUniversity
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Acknowledgements
The Global Health Education Consortium gratefully acknowledges the support provided for developing these teaching modules from:
Margaret Kendrick Blodgett Foundation The Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation
Arnold P. Gold Foundation
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0
United States License.
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Supplementary Notes
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Slide 5: ‘Global health’ in the west: everything old is new again.
‘EveryDog(NoDisAncAonOfColor)HasHisDay,’Harper’sWeekly,February8,1879page101.PublishedataAmeofheightenedanA‐immigrantsenAmentacrosstheUnitedStates,thisHarper’scartoon,unusually,drawsa`enAontothehypocrisyandcontradicAonsofthesituaAon.Thetextbeneaththeimagereads“RedGentlemantoYellowGentleman:‘Paleface‘fraidyoucrowdhimout,ashedidme.’”Behindthembothsitsastereotypedblackmansitngonabaleofco`on–ali`leremindertothemagazine’sreaders,perhaps,ofthelongerhistoryof(forcibly)importedlaborinAmerica.Thesignabovehisheadreads‘Mydayiscoming’.Ontherighthandsideoftheimagemeanwhilearemoresigns,whosecontentshighlighttheironiesofthesituaAon.Atthetop,oneposterbearsacrudeimageofanIndianrunninginfrontofatrainiscapAoned‘GoWest’.BelowitisanimageofaChineseman,bangingadrumlabelled‘Chineselabor’,chasingthetrainbacktowardstheAtlanAc.NextisanoAcereading‘DownwiththeNigger.KKK’andsignedwithaskullandcrossbones.Beneaththese,hangsacall:‘TheChinesemustgo!’signedby‘Kearney(arealAmerican)’–KearneywasananA‐immigrantIrish‐AmericanpoliAcianinCalifornia.HeretheillustratorwaspoinAngoutthehypocrisyofanaAonofimmigrantssuccumbingtoanA‐immigrantfever,andofthepoliAcianswhothrivedontheirfears.Furtherdown,thelargestprintisonaproclamaAon.Undertheheadline“TheChineseProblem”,itcallsforstateconsAtuAontoprohibitChineseimmigraAon,andforlaws“providingfortheirbanishment”.Twosmallersignsstate:“Foreignersnotwanted.Pat.IrishEsq.”“LagerBeirGovernmentwemusthave.SocialFritz,byorder.”Beneath,andbyimplicaAonunderlyingalloftheseanA‐immigrantstatementsisthefinalsign:“Knownothingismofthepast.DownwiththeIrish.DownWiththeDutch.”
AnAimmigrantandanA‐foreignermovementshavelongdrawnonpublichealthconcernstojusAfyracistorethnocentricexclusionarypolicies.EventodaymanynaAons,includingtheUnitedStates,excludesimmigrantswithcertainhealthcomplaints(includingAIDSandTB).
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Slide 6: ‘Global health’ in the west: Key events I
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Historically, ‘global health’ looks very different from the perspective of Asia, Africa, or South America than it does from the perspective of Europe and North America. The constraints of time and space limit this module to presenting the western view only, at least until the emergence of the new globalization after World War Two. But it is worth noting, if only in passing that the Chinese explored the east coast of Africa well before their European successors, that the Spice Trade flourished happily and created its own cultural and epidemiological ‘footprint’ long before Europeans were able to engage in it directly, that artefacts and foodstuffs mark out extensive trading networks across the pre-Columbian Americas, and that gods, gold, and slaves likewise traversed the African continent before their movements were driven by European interventions. By and large, isolation was not a cultural or medical option, even before this era of high-tech global communications, mass migration by air, and global corporate entities. Image credits: Left image: Adhémar de Monteil (Adhémar du Puy) charging the Saracens, brandishing the Sainte Lance d'Antioche. Medieval illumination from Wikicommons Right Image: ‘The Apothecary’ from De Materia Medica des Dioskurides, The York Project
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Slide 7: ‘Global health’ in the west: key events I ConsiderthefollowingquotaIonfromthe12thcenturyArabaccountoftheCrusades,wriZenbyEmirUsamahc1140:“TheFrankishgovernorofMunaytra,intheLebanesemountains,wrotetomyunclethesultan…askinghimtosendaphysiciantotreatseveralurgentcases.MyuncleselectedoneofourChrisAandoctors…Hewasgoneforjustafewdays,thenreturnedhome.…WebesiegedhimwithquesAons…”
OurnarratorthenrelatestheArabphysician’sstoryofhisImewiththeFranks(attheIme,amoreorlessgenerictermforNorthernEuropeans):
“TheybroughtbeforemeaknightwhohadanabscessonhislegandawomansufferingfromconsumpAon.Imadeaplasterfortheknightandtheswellingopenedandimproved.Forthewoman,IprescribedadiettoreviveherconsAtuAon.ButaFrankishdoctorthenarrivedandobjected,‘Thismandoesnotknowhowtocareforthem.’Addressingtheknight,heaskedhim,‘Whichdoyouprefer,tolivewithonelegordiewithtwo?’…Asforthewoman,theFrankishdoctorexaminedherandsaid,‘Shehasademoninherheadwhohasfalleninlovewithher.Cutherhair.Whentheknightansweredthathepreferredtolivewithoneleg…thephysicianordered,“Bringmeastrongknightwithawell‐sharpenedba`leaxe.”…Themarrowofthelegspurtedoutandthewoundedmandiedthatveryinstant.…Thewomanbegantoeattheirfoodagain…whichaggravatedtheconsumpAon.Thedoctoraffirmed,“thedevilhimselfmusthaveenteredherhead.”Graspingarazorhecut…theshapeofthecross,exposedtheboneoftheskullandrubbeditwithsalt.Thewomandiedonthespot.…Ireturnedhome,havinglearnedmuchthatIhadneverknownaboutthemedicineoftheFranks.”Source:AminMaalouf,TheCrusadesthroughArabEyes,pp131‐2
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Slide 8: ‘Global health’ in the west: key events I TheRenaissanceinEurope(ooendividedbyscholarsintoaseriesofnaAonalRenaissances)beganinItalyinthelate14thcentury.ItsorigininthisparAcularregionhasbeenlinkedtoanumberoffactors.PerhapsofmostinterestinrelaAontoideasofglobalhealthisthefactthatItalybenefitedbyitslocaAonattheheartoftheMediterraneanworldfromthefloweringofIslamicscience,mathemaAcs,andmedicine.OtherrelevantaspectswereDurer’sinvenAonoftheprinAngpressc.1450(whichconsiderablyspeededandenhancedtheflowofknowledgebetweencommuniAesinEurope);Europe’sfirstcontactswiththewesternhemispherec.1492;andrapiddevelopmentsinanatomyandastronomy,respecAvelyillustratedbyVesalius’sDehumanicorporisfabrica[Onthefabricofthehumanbody],publishedin1543,andtheworksofTychoBrahe,CopernicusandGalileo.
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Slide 9: ‘Global health’ in the west: key events II
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"Distribution of the primary races" from Lothrop Stoddard, The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1920). Of course this image is not an accurate map of race distribution – it was an ideologically loaded image created as part of a great debate about race, eugenics and (in the United States in particular) the dangers of immigration. For our purposes, it illustrates one endpoint of a process begun in the Age of Exploration [see next slide], as Europeans encountered and attempted to comprehend the non-European world. Using sciences of measurement, classification and categorization, each culture and civilisation was ranked and compared – and each was ranked below those of Europe. Similarly, through anatomy, physiology, anthropometry, and other medically allied sciences of the modern era, individuals from these cultures were assessed and found to be inferior to their European brethren. Medicine played a major role in these efforts – while at the same time the emerging disciplines of public health and tropical medicine were conveying (albeit often slowly and unevenly) significant benefits to the stigmatized and colonized populations as well as their imperial bureaucracies and bureaucrats.
The racial sciences: Phrenology: the scientific study and categorization of the shape of the skull to predict character and characteristics Craniometry: science devoted to the measurement of the skull (initially externally, subsequently internally) and correlation of such measurements to mental traits and abilities Comparative anatomy: anatomical studies drawing their analytical power and results from comparisons between human-animal, or human-human (sexual or racial) comparisons Anthropology: esp. physical anthropology