Professor Mark Harrison: List of publications

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Supplying relief: civil medical assistance during the Korean War, 1950–3

May 2025
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Journal article
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Social History of Medicine
This study examines the United Nation (UN)’s efforts to provide emergency relief for civilians during the Korean War, one of the deadliest and most devastating conflicts for civilians since World War II. The UN coordinated civilian relief during and after the war, developing a logistical system, legal framework and payment mechanism through UK banks in pounds sterling, and a distribution strategy based on European experience. United Nations Korean Reconstruction Agency (UNKRA) managed financial and legal issues, determined packing and shipping methods, resolved storage problems and distributed medical supplies in the field, either through United Nations Civil Assistance Corps Korea or UNKRA. The UN’s efforts to provide civilian medical assistance to Korea set an exemplary model for later relief efforts and this study shows how this holistic system was created on the basis of experience gained during World War II and the creation of entirely new mechanisms for purchasing and delivering medical aid.
United Nations, Korean war, medical relief, UNKRA, medical supply

A system of sanitary surveillance: disease, prostitution, and regulation in the settlement of Aden, 1872-1932

May 2025
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Chapter
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Dreams of Prevention and Control: Public Health and Policing in Colonial Asia

Medical Intelligence In Counter-Insurgency (COIN) And Counter-Terrorist (CT) Operations

July 2024
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Journal article
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Security science journal
<jats:p>Medical intelligence (MEDINT) is now regarded as critically important across a broad spectrum of security concerns. Its usual functions are either in force protection, evaluating risks to personnel at the tactical and operational levels, or, at a strategic level, in considering threats to the health and stability of nation-states. The uses of MEDINT in Counter-Terrorism (CT) and Counter-Insurgency (COIN) have received little attention except in so far as they overlap with these concerns; for example, where they involve matters of force-protection or the threat of bioterrorism. But this was not always so. In the past, information relating to health and medicine was considered crucial to the success of COIN operations, if not to domestic terrorism. By adapting some of these techniques to contemporary practice, and utilizing technologies that were not available in former times, we can use MEDINT in innovative ways to exploit the vulnerabilities of hostile groups and to isolate them from surrounding populations. This paper indicates some of the ways in which intelligence from a range of sources can be utilized to engage with communities more effectively; to anticipate the behavior of target groups/individuals; to determine their whereabouts, interactions and supply chains; and ultimately to exploit their weaknesses or dependencies. The paper is not intended as definitive but as a starting point in a conversation as to how MEDINT could or should contribute to CT and COIN operations.</jats:p>

Medicine in the Korean War

November 2023
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Journal article
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Korean Journal of Medical History

Governing global antimicrobial resistance: 6 key lessons from the Paris Climate Agreement

March 2022
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Journal article
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American Journal of Public Health

Police powers and public assemblies: learning from the Clapham Common ‘vigil’ during the Covid-19 pandemic

October 2021
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Journal article
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Policing: a Journal of Policy and Practice
The policing of peaceful public assembly during the Covid-19 pandemic has been one of the most central challenges to police legitimacy. This is arguably because mass gatherings are assumed to carry a high risk of contagion yet, at the same time, peaceful public assembly is a protected human right. In this article, we explore this issue by using a case study to provide a detailed chronological interactional analysis of the policing operation surrounding a highly controversial public assembly that took place on Clapham Common in March 2021 in London, England. We explore the utility of a research and theory-based model for public order policing in pandemics as a framework for understanding the way the event evolved and identifying what lessons can be learnt for policing assemblies, both in future pandemics and more generally. We contend that ambiguity in the application of emergency powers and the potential for heavy fines to be applied using the legislation created a divergence between stakeholders and culminated in a leadership vacuum among protesters. Moreover, the context of acute political sensitivity led to a highly centralized public order operation that limited the capacity of police to enact dialogue-based solutions when leadership (re)emerged during the event. We conclude by discussing the implications of our analysis for understanding the inherent dangers of regulatory frameworks that place too heavy a burden of discretionary power into the hands of police in determining whether public assemblies are ‘lawful’, and under what conditions they can occur.
emerging infectious diseases, coronaviruses, infectious diseases

Governing the global antimicrobial commons: introduction to special issue

March 2020
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Journal article
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Health Care Analysis
Antimicrobial resistance is one of the greatest public health crises of our time. The natural biological process that causes microbes to become resistant to antimicrobial drugs presents a complex social challenge requiring more effective and sustainable management of the global antimicrobial commons—the common pool of effective antimicrobials. This special issue of Health Care Analysis explores the potential of two legal approaches—one long-term and one short-term—for managing the antimicrobial commons. The first article explores the lessons for antimicrobial resistance that can be learned from recent climate change agreements, and the second article explores how existing international laws can be adapted to better support global action in the short-term.
antimicrobial resistance, global health policy, collective action, international law

Making use of existing international legal mechanisms to manage the global antimicrobial commons: identifying legal hooks and institutional mandates

March 2020
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Journal article
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Health Care Analysis
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is an urgent threat to global public health and development. Mitigating this threat requires substantial short-term action on key AMR priorities. While international legal agreements are the strongest mechanism for ensuring collaboration among countries, negotiating new international agreements can be a slow process. In the second article in this special issue, we consider whether harnessing existing international legal agreements offers an opportunity to increase collective action on AMR goals in the short-term. We highlight ten AMR priorities and several strategies for achieving these goals using existing “legal hooks” that draw on elements of international environmental, trade and health laws governing related matters that could be used as they exist or revised to include AMR. We also consider the institutional mandates of international authorities to highlight areas where additional steps could be taken on AMR without constitutional changes. Overall, we identify 37 possible mechanisms to strengthen AMR governance using the International Health Regulations, the Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures, the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, the Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade, the International Convention on the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System, and the Basel, Rotterdam, and Stockholm conventions. Although we identify many shorter-term opportunities for addressing AMR using existing legal hooks, none of these options are capable of comprehensively addressing all global governance challenges related to AMR, such that they should be pursued simultaneously with longer-term approaches including a dedicated international legal agreement on AMR.

Exploring models for an international legal agreement on the global antimicrobial commons: Lessons from climate agreements

January 2020
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Journal article
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Health Care Analysis
An international legal agreement governing the global antimicrobial commons would represent the strongest commitment mechanism for achieving collective action on antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Since AMR has important similarities to climate change—both are common pool resource challenges that require massive, long-term political commitments—the first article in this special issue draws lessons from various climate agreements that could be applicable for developing a grand bargain on AMR. We consider the similarities and differences between the Paris Climate Agreement and current governance structures for AMR, and identify the merits and challenges associated with different international forums for developing a long-term international agreement on AMR. To be effective, fair, and feasible, an enduring legal agreement on AMR will require a combination of universal, differentiated, and individualized requirements, nationally determined contributions that are regularly reviewed and ratcheted up in level of ambition, a regular independent scientific stocktake to support evidence informed policymaking, and a concrete global goal to rally support.

A roadmap for sustainably governing the global antimicrobial commons

November 2019
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Journal article
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Lancet
Antimicrobials are needed to treat deadly infections, enable life-saving medical procedures, and manage disease in food production. But antimicrobials come with a trade-off: their use accelerates antimicrobial resistance (AMR), which diminishes the future effectiveness of these medicines. This trade-off makes “antimicrobial effectiveness” a precious global common-pool resource that must be collectively protected. 1 Yet antimicrobials have been used inappropriately for decades. In too many circumstances, antimicrobials are deployed to compensate for inadequate infection prevention and control (IPC) in both human health and food production, instead of implementing water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) and IPC measures such as preventing hospital overcrowding and ensuring good equipment sterilisation practices. 2 In the process, this precious resource has been jeopardised. 3 , 4

Nudging Immunity: The Case for Vaccinating Children in School and Day Care by Default.

October 2019
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Journal article
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HEC Forum
Many parents are hesitant about, or face motivational barriers to, vaccinating their children. In this paper, we propose a type of vaccination policy that could be implemented either in addition to coercive vaccination or as an alternative to it in order to increase paediatric vaccination uptake in a non-coercive way. We propose the use of vaccination nudges that exploit the very same decision biases that often undermine vaccination uptake. In particular, we propose a policy under which children would be vaccinated at school or day-care by default, without requiring parental authorization, but with parents retaining the right to opt their children out of vaccination. We show that such a policy is (1) likely to be effective, at least in cases in which non-vaccination is due to practical obstacles, rather than to strong beliefs about vaccines, (2) ethically acceptable and less controversial than some alternatives because it is not coercive and affects individual autonomy only in a morally unproblematic way, and (3) likely to receive support from the UK public, on the basis of original empirical research we have conducted on the lay public.
Vaccination policies, School vaccination, Journal Article, Nudging, Anti-vaxxers, Vaccination

A dreadful scourge: Cholera in nineteenth-century India

August 2019
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Journal article
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Modern Asian Studies
In 1817–21, the Indian subcontinent was ravaged by a series of epidemics which marked the beginning of what has since become known as the First Cholera Pandemic. Despite their far-reaching consequences, these epidemics have received remarkably little attention and have never been considered as historical subjects in their own right. This article examines the epidemics of 1817–21 in greater detail and assesses their significance for the social and political history of the Indian subcontinent. Additionally, it examines the meanings that were attached to the epidemics in the years running up to the first appearance of cholera in the West. In so doing, the article makes comparisons between responses to cholera in India and in other contexts, and tests the applicability of concepts used in the study of epidemics in the West. It is argued that the official reaction to cholera in India was initially ameliorative, in keeping with the East India Company's response to famines and other supposedly natural disasters. However, this view was gradually supplemented and replaced by a view of cholera as a social disease, requiring preventive action. These views were initially rejected in Britain, but found favour after cholera epidemics in 1831–32. Secondly, in contrast to later epidemics, it is argued that those of 1817–21 did little to exacerbate tensions between rulers and the ruled. On the rare occasions when cholera did elicit a violent reaction, it tended to be intra-communal rather than anti-colonial in nature.

Health, sovereignty and imperialism: The Royal Navy and infectious disease in Japan’s treaty ports

December 2018
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Journal article
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Social Science Diliman
During the 1860s and 1870s, the British Royal Navy was a major presence in Japanese treaty ports and influenced the development of public health in those cities in significant ways. This paper compares the Navy’s response to two of the major infectious disease issues in the treaty ports—cholera and venereal disease—with that of the Japanese. Its aim is to determine whether the presence of foreign powers that enjoyed significant extraterritorial rights served to stimulate or frustrate sanitary intervention. It is argued that while there was common ground between the approaches advocated and taken by the British and the Japanese in relation to venereal diseases, the British presence proved disruptive when it came to the control of cholera during the epidemic of 1877; an epidemic that appears to have originated on a British naval vessel.
Japan, cholera, venereal disease, treaty port, Royal Navy, sovereignty

War, epidemics and empire: British military government in the Middle East, 1914-18

August 2018
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Journal article
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Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research

Society, Medicine and Politics in Colonial India

February 2018
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Edited book
This book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of modern South Asian history, sociology, politics and anthropology as well as specialists in the history of medicine.
Social Science

The Great Shift: Cholera Theory and Sanitary Policy in British India, 1867-1879

February 2018
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Chapter
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Society, Medicine and Politics in Colonial India

War on two fronts: fighting parasites in Korea and Vietnam

June 2017
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Journal article
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Medical History
The Vietnam War has long been regarded as pivotal in the history of the Republic of Korea, although its involvement in this conflict remains controversial. While most scholarship has focused on the political and economic ramifications of the war – and allegations of brutality by Korean troops – few scholars have considered the impact of the conflict upon medicine and public health. This article argues that the war had a transformative impact on medical careers and public health in Korea, and that this can be seen most clearly seen in efforts to control parasitic diseases. These diseases were a major drain on military manpower and a matter of growing concern domestically. The deployment to Vietnam boosted research into parasitic diseases of all kinds and accelerated the domestic campaign to control malaria and intestinal parasites. It also had a formative impact upon the development of overseas aid.
Republic of Korea, aid, parasites, malaria, Vietnam War, communism

If Global Health Is to Be Worthy of the Name, It Needs to Be Designed From the "Bottom Up".

April 2017
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Journal article
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American journal of public health

Pandemics

January 2017
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Chapter
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The Routledge History of Disease

A global perspective: refeaming the history of health, medicine, and disease

December 2015
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Journal article
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Bulletin of the History of Medicine
The emergence of global history has been one of the more notable features of academic history over the past three decades. Although historians of disease were among the pioneers of one of its earlier incarnations—world history—the recent “global turn” has made relatively little impact on histories of health, disease, and medicine. Most continue to be framed by familiar entities such as the colony or nation-state or are confined to particular medical “traditions.” This article aims to show what can be gained from taking a broader perspective. Its purpose is not to replace other ways of seeing or to write a new “grand narrative” but to show how transnational and transimperial approaches are vital to understanding some of the key issues with which historians of health, disease, and medicine are concerned. Moving on from an analysis of earlier periods of integration, the article offers some reflections on our own era of globalization and on the emerging field of global health.
SBTMR

Disease and world history from 1750

April 2015
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Chapter
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The Cambridge World History

Britain's medical war: a brief comparison of health and medicine on several fronts.

October 2014
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Journal article
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Medicine, conflict, and survival
Humans, Military Medicine, History, 20th Century, World War I, United Kingdom

Scurvy on sea and land: political economy and natural history, c. 1780–c. 1850

May 2013
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Journal article
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Journal for Maritime Research
<p>From the late eighteenth century, the ways in which scurvy was understood changed in consequence of the abandonment of humoral pathology and the adoption of a new causal framework informed by nervous physiology. Although there was some narrowing of the etiological framework around dietary deficiency in the wake of the navy's success with the issue of citrus juices, this was rarely to the exclusion of predisposing causes such as fatigue, weather and flagging spirits. Within the navy, the persistence of a multi-factoral framework was relatively unproblematic, for the standard issue of citrus juices and improvements in victualling occurred at the same time as other important reforms in naval health. But outside the navy it was a different matter. In other institutional settings, the continuing belief in the importance of factors other than diet created tensions between medical officers and administrators who found such inclusive views politically inconvenient.</p> <p>After a brief survey of the principal changes in the physiology of scurvy, this article examines how the problem of scurvy was understood, not only in the navy but also in the armies of the East India Company and in British prisons. These were not the only contexts in which scurvy caused concern, but they serve to illustrate the fact that it remained a complex and controversial disease. The article shows how different medical cultures and institutional imperatives took the natural history of scurvy in different directions.</p>
prisons, convicts, political economy, scurvy, Royal Navy, East India Company, diet

Commentary: Cholera in Krishnapur.

April 2013
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Journal article
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International journal of epidemiology
Humans, Cholera

Networks of Knowledge: Science and Medicine in Early Colonial India, c.1750–1820

October 2012
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Chapter
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India and the British Empire
This chapter explores some of the less familiar aspects of science, medicine, and empire in early colonial India, examining some of the many informal networks which overlapped with those created by the East India Company and key metropolitan institutions like the Royal Society. It looks both at knowledge gathering within British India and at the circulation of ideas between India, Britain, and other countries. Among other things, it considers the great variety of projects in which medical practitioners and natural philosophers participated, as well as their various interests and motives. The chapter attempts to show that men of science made use of their time in India to pursue a variety of intellectual agendas, some of which were surprisingly radical in nature.

Contagion: How Commerce Has Spread Disease

August 2012
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Book
Much as we take comfort in the belief that modern medicine and public health tactics can protect us from horrifying contagious diseases, such faith is dangerously unfounded. So demonstrates Mark Harrison in this pathbreaking investigation of the intimate connections between trade and disease throughout modern history. For centuries commerce has been the single most important factor in spreading diseases to different parts of the world, the author shows, and today the same is true. But in today's global world, commodities and germs are circulating with unprecedented speed. Beginning with the plagues that ravaged Eurasia in the fourteenth century, Harrison charts both the passage of disease and the desperate measures to prevent it. He examines the emergence of public health in the Western world, its subsequent development elsewhere, and a recurring pattern of misappropriation of quarantines, embargoes, and other sanitary measures for political or economic gain-even for use as weapons of war. In concluding chapters the author exposes the weaknesses of today's public health regulations-a set of rules that not only disrupt the global economy but also fail to protect the public from the afflictions of trade-borne disease.

Networks of Knowledge: Science and Medicine in Early Colonial India

January 2012
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Chapter
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The Oxford Companion to the History of the British Empire: India

The Army Medical Department, 1917-1941

January 2011
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Journal article
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WAR IN HISTORY

The Medical War: British Military Medicine in the First World War

November 2010
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Book
During the First World War, Great Britain invested a great deal in its medical services, and in most theatres of the war they were considered vital to military efficiency. It was at that point widely recognized that medicine improved manpower economy and morale. Medicine was also important in sustaining public support for war and civilians contributed to the medical welfare of soldiers either directly, as volunteers, or indirectly as donors. Medical themes figured prominently in propaganda, too, and in uniting Britain with its imperial territories. But the centrality of medicine to war in 1914–18 stands in marked contrast to previous campaigns. The recent war in South Africa revealed that medicine had been given little attention by military commanders, and that disease prevention and casualty disposal were poorly organized. This book examines the differences and similarities between medical arrangements in 1914–18 and earlier conflicts. It attempts to explain why medicine became central to military operations during the First World War and to account for variations in medical arrangements in different theatres of the war. The book also examines military medicine in all major theatres as well as neglected facets of wartime medicine such as work among civilians, imperial armies, and the imperial labour corps.
History

Medicine in an age of commerce and empire

October 2010
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Chapter
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Medicine in an age of commerce and empire
History

Medicine in an Age of Commerce and Empire

September 2010
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Book
This book examines the consequences of commercial and imperial expansion for British medicine between roughly 1660 and 1830. It pays particular attention to the development of medical ideas and practices in India and the British West Indies and their impact on medicine at home. The book argues that the tropical colonies were important sites of innovation and that the experience gained by practitioners working there transformed medical practice in ways which have not been fully appreciated. India, the West Indies, and other overseas outposts offered tremendous scope for those seeking to understand the nature of disease and to observe its effects in living patients and post‐mortem. Colonial hospitals also afforded many opportunities for trials of new drugs: not only new botanical remedies but also chemical therapies, some of which were pioneered in the colonies. It is argued that these opportunities bolstered a growing movement for reform in British medicine, with particular emphasis upon the importance of empiricism, experiment, and morbid anatomy. The book also ponders the relationship between reform in the medical arena and the politics of Dissent, as well as the impact of colonialism and commerce upon the professional environment in Britain. It shows how former colonial practitioners became increasingly influential in British medicine, tapping into fears about invasion by alien diseases, degeneration, and social change.
History

Before my helpless sight: suffering, dying and military medicine on the western front, 1914-1918

January 2010
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Journal article
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MEDICAL HISTORY

The Calcutta Botanic Garden in the Era of Nathaniel Wallich

January 2010
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Chapter
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Science and Modern India: An Institutional History, c.1784-1947

An "Important and Truly National Subject": The West Africa Service and the Health of the Royal Navy in the Mid Nineteenth Century

November 2009
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Chapter
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Health and medicine at sea, 1700-1900
History

Racial Pathologies: Morbid Anatomy in British India, 1770-1850

February 2009
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Chapter
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The social history of health and medicine in colonial India
This book analyzes the diverse facets of the social history of health and medicine in colonial India.
History

Social History of Health and Medicine: Colonial India

February 2009
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Chapter
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The social history of health and medicine in colonial India
This book analyzes the diverse facets of the social history of health and medicine in colonial India.
History

Advancing with the Army: Medicine, the Professions, and Social Mobility in the British Isles 1790-1850

January 2009
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Journal article
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SCOTTISH HISTORICAL REVIEW

After Empire - Searching for a New Synthesis

January 2009
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Journal article
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Isis: international review devoted to the history of science and its cultural influences

An "Important and Truly National Subject": The West Africa Service and the Health of the Royal Navy in the Mid Nineteenth Century

January 2009
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Chapter
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Health and Medicine at Sea, 1700-1900
Examines a wide range of aspects of health and medicine in maritime and imperial settings during the eighteenth and nineteenth century.
History

Colonial Madness: Psychiatry in French North Africa.

January 2009
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Journal article
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HISTORICAL STUDIES IN THE NATURAL SCIENCES

Curing the Colonizers: Hydrotherapy, Climatology, and French Colonial Spas.

January 2009
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Journal article
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HISTORICAL STUDIES IN THE NATURAL SCIENCES

Dominance by Design: Technological Imperatives and America's Civilizing Mission.

January 2009
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Journal article
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HISTORICAL STUDIES IN THE NATURAL SCIENCES

Introduction

January 2009
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Chapter
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From western medicine to global medicine
Hospitals

Leprosy and Empire: A Medical and Cultural History.

January 2009
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Journal article
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HISTORICAL STUDIES IN THE NATURAL SCIENCES

Maritime Quarantine: The British Experience, c. 1650-1990.

January 2009
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Journal article
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BULLETIN OF THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE

Practising Colonial Medicine: The Colonial Medical Service in British East Africa.

January 2009
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Journal article
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HISTORICAL STUDIES IN THE NATURAL SCIENCES

Social History of Science in Colonial India. Themes in Indian History

January 2009
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Journal article
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JOURNAL OF SOCIAL HISTORY

The Ottoman Army 1914-1918: Disease and Death on the Battlefield

January 2009
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Journal article
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SOCIAL HISTORY OF MEDICINE

The development of modern medicine in non-western countries

December 2008
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Chapter
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The development of modern medicine in non-western countries
Royalasiatic Society Books
Medical

Medical lives in the age of surgical revolution

January 2008
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Journal article
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ISIS

Nelson's surgeon: William Beatty, naval medicine, and the battle of Trafalgar.

January 2008
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Journal article
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WAR IN HISTORY

Public health in Asia and the Pacific. Historical and comparative perspectives

January 2008
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Journal article
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SOCIAL HISTORY OF MEDICINE

Disease and demography in colonial Burma

January 2007
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Journal article
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SOCIAL HISTORY OF MEDICINE

Science across the European empires, 1800-1950.

January 2007
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Journal article
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ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW

Disease, Diplomacy and International Commerce: the Origins of International Sanitary Regulation in the Nineteenth Century

December 2006
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Journal article
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Journal of Global History
During the early nineteenth century, European nations began to contemplate cooperation in sanitary matters, starting a diplomatic process that culminated in the International Sanitary Conferences and the first laws on the control of infectious disease. This article examines the origins of these conferences and highlights certain features that have been neglected in existing scholarship. It argues that while commercial pressures were the main stimuli to the reform of quarantine, these were insufficient in themselves to explain why most European nations came to see greater cooperation as desirable. It places special emphasis on the diplomatic context and shows that the peace of 1815 produced a climate in which many European nations envisaged a more systematic and liberal sanitary regime. © London School of Economics and Political Science 2006.

Disease and democracy: The industrialized world faces AIDS.

January 2006
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Journal article
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INTERNATIONAL HISTORY REVIEW

Fever of war: The influenza epidernic in the US army during World War I.

January 2006
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Journal article
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WAR IN HISTORY

Maladies, preventives and curatives: Debates in public health in India

January 2006
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Journal article
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SOCIAL HISTORY OF MEDICINE

War epidemics: an historical geography of infectious diseases in military conflict and civil strife, 1820-2000

January 2006
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Journal article
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MEDICAL HISTORY

Science and the British Empire.

March 2005
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Journal article
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Isis
The last few decades have witnessed a flowering of interest in the history of science in the British Empire. This essay aims to provide an overview of some of the most important work in this area, identifying interpretative shifts and emerging themes. In so doing, it raises some questions about the analytical framework in which colonial science has traditionally been viewed, highlighting interactions with indigenous scientific traditions and the use of network-based models to understand scientific relations within and beyond colonial contexts.
Colonialism, History, 18th Century, History, 19th Century, History, 20th Century, Humans, Science, United Kingdom

Bullets and bacilli: the Spanish-American war and military medicine

January 2005
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Journal article
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MEDICAL HISTORY

Fractured States: Smallpox, Public Health and Vaccination Policy in British India 1800-1947

January 2005
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Book
This work provides a well rounded history of official smallpox measures and their links with the development of public health in policies and programmes in Brititsh India.
Health & Fitness

Plants and empire: Colonial bioprospecting in the Atlantic world.

January 2005
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Journal article
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AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW

Medicine and Victory: British Military Medicine in the Second World War

September 2004
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Book
Medicine and Victory is the first comprehensive account of British military medicine in the Second World War since the publication of the official history in the early 1950s. Drawing on a wide range of official and non-official sources, the book examines medical work in all the main theatres of the war, from the front line to the base hospital. All aspects of medical work are covered, including the prevention of disease, and the disposal and treatment of casualties. Harrison argues that the medical services played a major role in the Allied victory enabling the British Army to keep a higher proportion of troops in the field than its opponents. Assuming no previous knowledge of either medical or military history, Medicine and Victory provides an accessible introduction to a vitally important, yet too often neglected aspect of the Second World War.
History

Disease and the Modern World: 1500 to the Present Day

March 2004
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Book
The book is a significant introduction to a fascinating subject.’ Gerald N. Grob, Rutgers State University In this lively and accessible book, Mark Harrison charts the history of disease from the birth of the modern world around 1500 ...
History

Anglo-European science and the rhetoric of empire: Malaria, opium, and British rule in India, 1756-1895.

January 2004
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Journal article
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BULLETIN OF THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE

Florence Nightingale and the health of the Raj

January 2004
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Journal article
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JOURNAL OF IMPERIAL AND COMMONWEALTH HISTORY

Prostitution, race, and politics: Policing venereal disease in the British empire.

January 2004
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Journal article
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AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW

The Regius Chair of Military Surgery in the University of Edinburgh

January 2004
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Journal article
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SOCIAL HISTORY OF MEDICINE

The Spanish influenza pandemic of 1918-19

January 2004
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Journal article
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SOCIAL HISTORY OF MEDICINE

Defeated flesh: Medicine, welfare and warfare in the making of modern France

January 2002
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Journal article
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WAR IN HISTORY

Imperial medicine: Patrick Manson and the conquest of tropical disease.

January 2002
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Journal article
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BRITISH JOURNAL FOR THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE

Notorious astrological physician of London: Works and days of Simon Forman.

January 2002
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Journal article
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ISIS

Another Reason: Science and the imagination of modern India

January 2001
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Journal article
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ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW

Health, Medicine and Empire: Perspectives on Colonial India

January 2001
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Book
In Culture, Ideology, Hegemony: Intellectuals and Social Consciousness in Colonial India, K. N. Panikkar, 145-75. New Delhi: Tulika ... Medicine, and Empire: Perspectives on Western Medicine and the Experience of European Expansion, ed.
Medical

Imperialism: Critical Concepts in Historical Studies

January 2001
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Book
Imperialism, and its close ally, colonialism, are two such contested concepts. This set will give readers an insight in to the main lines of debate about the meanings of imperialism and colonialism over the last two centuries.
Imperialism

The New Cambridge history of India: Science, technology and medicine in colonial India

January 2001
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Journal article
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SOCIAL HISTORY OF MEDICINE

Differences of degree: representations of India in British medical topography, 1820-c. 1870.

January 2000
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Journal article
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Med Hist Suppl
History, 19th Century, Humans, India, Topography, Medical, United Kingdom

Differences of degree:: Representations of India in British medical topography, 1820-c.1870

January 2000
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Journal article
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MEDICAL HISTORY

War and Medicine in the Modern Era

May 1999
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Book
History

Climates & Constitutions: Health, Race, Environment and British Imperialism in India, 1600-1850

January 1999
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Book
The first major study of European attitudes towards India's climate and their bearing on imperial expansion, this book shows how growing fears about racial degeneration led to the abandonment of plans for white colonization.
Science

Medicine and Modern Warfare

January 1999
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Book
The essays in this volume focus on one important aspect of that relationship: the practice and development of medicine within the armed forces from the late nineteenth century through to the end of the Second World War.
Medical

Medicine and the Management of Modern Warfare

December 1996
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Journal article
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History of Science: review of literature and research

The British Army and the Problem of Venereal Disease in France and Egypt During the First World War

April 1995
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Journal article
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Medical History

Public Health in British India: Anglo-Indian Preventive Medicine 1859-1914

February 1994
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Book
After years of neglect the last decade has witnessed a surge of interest in the medical history of India under colonial rule. This is the first major study of public health in British India.
Medical