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Global health in the colonial era: The expansion of Europeanmedicineby Walter Bruchhausen
The worldwide spread of the European type of medicine has taken place since the early modern period, above all throughtrade settlements, Christian missionary work, and colonial conquest. However, the Western claim of superiority developedonly with successes of the scientifically oriented medicine of the late 19th century, not least of bacteriologically informedtropical medicine. In the past, foreign medicine had even been considered potentially superior by local standards. At thetime, the dominant concern was the health of one's own staff. Not until the development of the colonial economy around1900 was more protection against epidemics provided for indigenous populations in European colonies. Since around 1930, thenew task of development has entailed an expansion of curative care. This has increasingly included indigenous health carepersonnel, despite a long history of racism.
TABLE OF CONTENTS1. Introduction2. The sea voyages of the early modern era: imports and exports of various kinds3. Asian written cultures and European medicine: interest and resistance4. Health care upheavals in America: slave trade and independence5. Ottoman Empire: European doctors in North Africa and the Middle East6. Medicine in the exploitation and colonial imperial conquest of Africa7. Tropical medical research and disease control around 19008. Health care in the consolidation phase of European colonies9. Social medicine and racism in the interwar period: the ambivalence of modernity
10. A gradual departure from Eurocentrism: the World Health Organization and decolonization11. Appendix
1. Literature2. Notes
IndicesCitation
Introduction
Over the course of the European expansion (➔ Media Link #ab) to various parts of the world, which has occurred in the formof trade relations (➔ Media Link #ac), Christian missionary work (➔ Media Link #ad), and violent conquests (➔ Media Link#ae), the role of health care has been multifaceted. Unknown diseases threatened the health of travelers and settlers, whileimported epidemics decimated the locals and weakened their resistance. Ship doctors wrote about foreign healing methods,1
and medicinal plants were occasionally highly sought-after trade goods. The Christian missionaries, who introduced their ownhealth services, were engaged in fighting "pagan" healing rituals.2 Researchers investigated tropical pathogens and thusprovided the impetus for large disease control programs. The permanent white colonization of tropical regions only becamepossible because the initially high mortality rates of the newcomers – which contributed to the nickname "white man's grave"for the West African coast – was reduced at the end of the 19th century by more effective prevention measures.3 Finally, thevisible success in tackling individual health problems was also one reason why the rejection of foreigners, given their oftenrepressive and alienating practices, gradually turned into acceptance of at least some of their provisions.
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Thus what for a long time was treated only as an export of medicine should be examined today from both sides as transferand reception with adaptive processes. In this way, a Eurocentric perspective can at least be relativized to some extent,while taking into account the "agency" of locals, i.e. their power to act.4 There are several key questions that need to bepursued in the multiplicity of aspects mentioned above. For instance, why were elements of European health care transferred
and adapted? Of its constituent parts, i.e. personnel, material, processes or knowledge, which ones were considered andchosen in response to which perceived health problems? How did the inhomogeneous native population react to thesedifferent imports?
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Here in this thread, the predominant focus is on the European side. Numerous similarities and parallels exist in the differentphases between the developments in the trade and mission areas in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. As a result, despitecharacteristic differences, it is not possible to present findings that were consistently separated by continent or region, as iscustomary in ethnomedicine, medical ethnology, or anthologies on the history of colonial medicine.5 Not until the 18th and19th century are the asynchronous developments of socio-political conditions and the procedures of medical actors so distinctthat a regional breakdown is thoroughly justified.
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The sea voyages of the early modern era: imports and exports of various kinds
In infectiological terms, contact with virgin soil, i.e. the populations of America not yet affected by certain infectiousdiseases, represents a specific case of European expansion. Thus, while the land masses and shipping connections that hadlong connected Europe with Asia and Africa had brought with them an at least occasional (and in the case of the late antiqueand late medieval plague even catastrophic) exchange of many pathogens, the populations of America possessed no immunityagainst a range of agents. As a consequence, they fell victim to the novel diseases on a massive scale. Though statisticallydifficult to prove, there is good reason to believe that more people in the Incas and Aztecs have fallen victim to infectiousdiseases than to the violence of the European invaders. This pattern would repeat itself later in the Pacific region.Conversely, ship crews from South and Central America with syphilis brought strains of the bacterial genus Treponema toEurope. As there was no cross-immunity here, they spread rapidly in the Old World by means of various Europe-wide militarycampaigns (➔ Media Link #af).
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Where the attitude of European physicians to native medicine from the end of the 19th century was marked by a sense ofsuperiority, the attitude in the early modern period was notably less condescending. True to the physiotheologically inspiredprinciple that in God's world order every country grew the medicinal plants it needed for its own diseases, many Europeansexpected native healers to have a better knowledge of the necessary treatment than they did. This applied to academic andnon-academic ship’s doctors, but also to European crews, who at a number of garrison- and harbor towns (➔ Media Link #ag)gladly let themselves be treated for fever by native healers.
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Indeed, medicinal plants enjoyed a great interest, not least because the priority of these sea voyages was to discovercommodities and trade routes. Over the centuries, however, only few new substances managed to make it into the Europeanmedicinal catalogue, marketed in the pharmaceutical system of the Baroque era as "exotica." In keeping with theaforementioned principle of a geographical link between illness and medicinal plants, these were mostly special compoundsfor the treatment of new diseases which predominated in warmer countries. This applied to products from South America likecinchona bark (quinine) (➔ Media Link #ah). Named after the Viceroy of Peru, a Countess Chinchon, and known as Jesuitpowder because of the distribution channels, it was used against malaria, which was also common in Europe at that time.Also worth mentioning are guaiacum wood and the sarsaparilla root, also found in Asia and Europe, which were used to treatimported syphilis, and ipecacuanha, which was used against dysentery. On the other hand, many medicinal substances such ascloves or ginger, which were already known in ancient times and were also used as spices, were imported from the Orient andAsia, along with opium poppy. Ginseng from East Asia was also introduced in the early modern period.
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Some of these medicinal plants were only described for Europeans in the extensive travelogues of learned doctors. This kindof reporting was facilitated by changes in the medical personnel of the settlements and colonial territories. Previously,mostly non-university-educated ship surgeons had travelled as members of the crews and thus been bound to the environs ofthe harbors. From the 17th century onward, various academically trained doctors arrived in foreign lands to the West and
East with greater freedom and more opportunity.▲7
Some were able to conduct research in the conquered areas as royal physicians. One of the pioneers of local medical andbotanical research in Brazil was Willem Piso (1611–1678) (➔ Media Link #ai). Commissioned by the Dutch West India Company(WIC) and serving as a companion of Count of Nassau-Siegen, he described the common diseases and medicinal plants therein detail (➔ Media Link #aj).6 The Dutch doctor Willem ten Rhijne (1647–1700) (➔ Media Link #ak) and the Westphalian doctorand botanist Engelbert Kaempfer (1651–1716) (➔ Media Link #al) entered into the service of Asian settlements of Europeantrading companies on behalf of Dutch East India Company (VOC) (➔ Media Link #am) Based in Batavia (➔ Media Link #an) andNagasaki, they described patterns of disease as well as East-Asian medicine.
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Asian written cultures and European medicine: interest and resistance
The major written cultures of India and China and the areas they influenced, Indochina, Indonesia, Korea and Japan, fellunder European influence. Their medical traditions, which had also been written down, reached as far back in time as thoseof the eastern Mediterranean and thus much further than those of Western Europe and even more so America. Thissimultaneously held out the prospect of greater understanding and more competition.
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During the 18th century, when India was violently defeated by British supremacy, European medical personnel played adecisive role in the armed forces and administrations. In the course of the colonial rule, especially during the Indian uprisingof 1857 (➔ Media Link #ao), there was a realization that subjugated peoples should not be unduly forced to westernize.Instead, cooperative traditional authorities and institutions should be supported in a kind of indirect rule, which also had animpact on medicine. In addition to the medical colleges for medicine imported from Europe, state-controlled training centersemerged for the practice of Ayurvedic and (Y)unani medicine, the Islamic heritage of the "ionic," i.e. Greek, humoralpathology, and, as a further import from Europe, homeopathy. The basic acceptance of European academic medicine was alsoencouraged by this already established medical pluralism. However, like other types of medicine, it was used and avoidedaccording to its perceived strengths and weaknesses.
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In 1817, the Indian subcontinent was placed front and center in matters of health for the rest of the world. Cholera,previously only a seasonal and regional concern, spread from easternmost border region and became a pandemic for the firsttime. Migration, deteriorating hygienic conditions, and increased trade are recognized as enabling factors attributable to theactivity of the British East India Company. The first pandemic reached the Arab countries and East Africa via shipping routes;later pandemics also reached Western Europe (➔ Media Link #ap) and even America (➔ Media Link #aq).
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China was a political and medical exception. Excluding certain coastal regions, China had never been the colonial territory ofa European power. But from 1860 onwards, it was forced by one of the "unequal treaties" following the Opium Wars totolerate the pervasive presence of Western trade and mission societies, which also included educational and healthcareinstitutions. In the medical field, North American missionaries led the way in opening hospitals. Some European missionsocieties followed suit, however, especially those from Germany and Switzerland.7 In the process, requests for medicaltreatment considerably exceeded the demand for foreign religion. Wealthy Chinese, both merchants and senior officials, evenfinanced the construction of new mission hospitals without becoming Christians themselves.8 But here, too, demand was by nomeans related to the entire spectrum of Western medicine. Above all, interested Chinese wanted to learn from the foreigndoctors (➔ Media Link #ar) the natural sciences, surgical subjects including dentistry, and disease control. In fact, foreigndoctors had already responded to this curiosity since the late 19th century by establishing independent colleges anduniversities. When it came to internal diseases, the Chinese usually preferred to rely on their own medical traditions. Theypraised foreign doctors who developed an understanding of Chinese medicine for these conditions, and, indeed, evenexpected them to do so. Deaths in mission hospitals often led to xenophobic campaigns due to religious, professional andpolitical tensions. Often, they were eluded through timely discharges or refusals of admission.
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Health care upheavals in America: slave trade and independence
The European expansion also led to the development of a number of epidemiological and demographic phenomena, which hadpreviously been more regional in nature. Besides the decimating effects of the above-mentioned epidemics, deportations alsogrew in scope. This included forms of enslavement through war, robbery and debt bondage common in certain parts of Africa.People brought into bondage in this way were kidnapped through the transatlantic slave trade, pursued by European actors,as workers for the plantations in the Caribbean (➔ Media Link #at) and in southern North America (➔ Media Link #au).Diseases thus reached new lands and survivors weakened by the brutal transportation conditions were exposed to massivenew health risks. African healing cults were also transplanted. In syncretism with Catholic and Indian elements, theytransformed spectacularly into Voodoo, Umbanda, or Santería, among others. In the form of smallpox vaccinations (➔ MediaLink #av), European preventive medicine was also transported onboard the slave ships. Still, individual treatment fromEuropean doctors and surgeons probably did not occur. Some of them, like the Frenchman Captain Maurice at the end of the18th century, were even active as slave traders themselves.
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As North America had itself been colony for most of the 18th century, some experts even regard the health care there to havebeen colonial medicine before independence. Certainly, urban European medicine was also introduced and adapted here in acharacteristic manner, albeit far less radically than in more culturally foreign regions. In general, there was less stateregulation and academization, a tendency which persisted through the later establishment of more practice-oriented medicalschools in lieu of Old-Europe-style scientific medical faculties. In the 19th century, when Latin American countries gainedindependence from Spanish and Portuguese rule (➔ Media Link #aw), medical training and care – which was largely limited tothe cities – continued to follow the traditional European model. New impulses only came as a result of increased immigrationfrom medically and scientifically prominent countries at the time such as France, Germany, or Italy.
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Ottoman Empire: European doctors in North Africa and the Middle East
Through the activities of European physicians in the Ottoman Empire, Istanbul and Egypt in particular developed into centersof encounter for medicine between the Orient and the Occident. In Istanbul, Italian doctors learned about the Asian practiceof variolation, i.e. the rather dangerous vaccination against smallpox by inserting smallpox scabs into skin incisions. Thisprocedure was then sporadically introduced in Europe.
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Egypt became especially important for transfers in the opposite direction. After the Napoleonic expedition (➔ Media Link #ax)had brought the country into greater contact with European science and medicine, innovative contributions were made toresearch and medical administration in Egypt above all by younger proponents of modern, scientifically influenced medicinefrom France and Germany. Antoine Barthélémy Clot(-Bey) (1793–1868) (➔ Media Link #ay), the personal physician of theKhedive of Egypt, was responsible for cholera and plague control, public and military health services, medical training,pharmacy, and midwifery. The Upper Palatinate native Franz Pruner(-Bey) (1808–1882) (➔ Media Link #az) also worked foralmost three decades in Egypt as a teacher, researcher, and medical administrator. At first, he was a professor of anatomyand physiology, and later ophthalmology; he was also a director of two central hospitals, a personal physician, and author ofnumerous works on infectious and eye diseases. Similarly, in his two years in Cairo (1850–1852) as head of medical trainingand health care, Wilhelm Griesinger (1817–1868) (➔ Media Link #b0), who later would become famous as a psychiatrist,conducted research with a focus on infectious diseases and worms. The latter subject became the specialty of his firstassistant Theodor Bilharz (1825–1862) (➔ Media Link #b1), who described eggs and larvae of the worm disease schistosomiasisthat is also named after him (Bilharzia haematobium). Bilharz later advanced to chief physician of various Cairo hospitals andprofessor of anatomy.
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Similar developments took place in other areas of North Africa and the Middle East. With the appointment of Europeandoctors to the top of the health care system, Islamic rulers leaning towards Europe replaced the humoral-pathologicaltradition with Western-style training and treatment centers.9
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Medicine in the exploitation and colonial imperial conquest of Africa
The chief task of European overseas physicians was to provide health care for white and, over time, indigenous personnel.European physicians had a range of functions in exploiting areas and populations for European influence: They weremissionary and expeditionary physicians in remote areas (following the example of David Livingstone (1813–1873) (➔ MediaLink #b2)[ (➔ Media Link #b3) (➔ Media Link #b4)] (➔ Media Link #b5)), consular physicians at indigenous courts (e.g. British,French and German physicians at the emperor's court of Ethiopia or the Sultan of Zanzibar), company doctors at largecommercial enterprises such as mining, trading and shipping companies or railway construction projects, and, above all,military doctors in the colonial armies. Doctors prevented and treated frequently fatal diseases, mostly of an infectiousnature, and serious injuries resulting from armed conflicts or from wild animals in the case of their own staff. They alsoaddressed the care of indigenous groups.
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Initially, doctors sought to gain local trust, but also prestige. Politically or economically important figures were thus gladlytreated. The doctors of different European nationalities – who were also viewed suspiciously by local healers – even competedwith each other for the favor of the aforementioned rulers. On the other hand, in remote areas, desperate, sometimes evenalready deceased patients were often taken to foreign doctors. Due to the locals’ naiveté, the latter were initially expectedto perform miracles.
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The first phase of establishing health care facilities in Christian mission societies was largely accomplished without doctors.10
Nuns with nursing training and missionaries who had received rudimentary pre-departure instruction provided first aid,dressed wounds, and administered medication to both whites and locals (➔ Media Link #b6). Early on, they even includedindigenous people in the provision of care who had graduated from their missionary schools. For the missions, so-calledsuperstitions – i.e. local notions and rituals for dealing with disease, which also included spirits and magic – were a compellingreason to set up more professional health services, especially in the areas of obstetrics, infant care, and chronic ulcers.
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In the beginning, the higher number of doctors in the colonial armed forces brought few health benefits to the localpopulation. During the brutal wars of conquest and the no less bloody crackdown against resistance, the counterattackingside scarcely experienced any European medical or nursing care. The martial law that was developed in Europe at that timeprovided for humanitarian care for all victims. This standard, however, was not applied to indigenous peoples in Africa. Muchto the contrary, there are even accounts of wounded locals being murdered. Similar racist attitudes (➔ Media Link #b7)wereeven found in times of peace, for instance when white nurses resisted or were even hostile to the idea of caring for sicknatives.11
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Tropical medical research and disease control around 1900
Crucial to the development of tropical medicine, whose founding was tied to the new bacteriology, was the fact that itcoincided with the climax and conclusion of colonial imperialist conquest. After the Berlin Conference (➔ Media Link #b8) onthe Division of Africa 1884/1885, the European powers focused even more on scientific research to advance the military-political subjugation and economic-technical development of their older and newer colonial territories. At first, the healthdebate in Germany was still dominated by the questions of social Darwinism and acclimatization. Specifically, it wasdiscussed whether whites, who were the supposedly superior race from a civilizational standpoint, could ever adapt intropical climates for long-term habitation and physical work.12 Following many skeptical responses to the question of
adaptability, but also concerning the inroads of various "conquerors," the focus shifted to protection against infectiousdiseases as a result of developments in tropical medicine. Research in this area was now politically desired and publiclyacclaimed.13
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To begin with, tropical medical research had the political advantage of national and international prestige, for it wasuniquely characterized by competition and exchange between European states. It also offered advantages in terms ofresearch technology. The sheer size of many pathogens that were protozoa or worms, and the comparatively easy capture ofinsects and snails, which acted as carriers and intermediate hosts, often meant particularly good visibility of the test objects.In 1880, the French physician Alphonse Laveran (1845–1922) (➔ Media Link #b9) described the malaria plasmodium in Algeriaand founded his own "Société de Pathologie Exotique" in 1908. In India, in 1897, the British doctor Ronald Ross (1857–1932) (➔Media Link #ba) confirmed the assumptions of many locals and researchers that malaria is transmitted by mosquitoes.14 Alsoone of the founders of bacteriology, Robert Koch (1843–1910) (➔ Media Link #bb)[ (➔ Media Link #bc) (➔ Media Link #bd)] (➔Media Link #be) recognized new opportunities in the tropics after he domestically failed to prove the effectiveness oftuberculin as an alleged cure for tuberculosis. In 1896, he thus researched, again with little practical benefit, Rinderpest inSouth Africa and one year later the plague in India and German East Africa, today's Tanzania. In 1898 and 1899, he studiedmalaria in Italy, Java and New Guinea. And, in 1905/06, he investigated sleeping sickness, again in German East Africa and inneighboring British Uganda.
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Research into even smaller pathogens also made considerable progress in tropical climates. Breakthroughs in yellow feverwere achieved by the Cuban Carlos Juan Finlay (1833–1915) (➔ Media Link #bf) and the US-American Walter Reed(1851–1902) (➔ Media Link #bg) on Cuba. The investigation of typhus profited from discoveries by the Russian OssipMotschutkowski (1845–1903) in Odessa, the American Howard Taylor Ricketts (1871–1910) (➔ Media Link #bh) in Mexico in1910, as well as the Czech-Austrian researcher Stanislaus (von) Prowazek (1875–1915) (➔ Media Link #bi) in 1913 as well asthe Brazilian Henrique da Rocha Lima (1879–1956) (➔ Media Link #bj) in 1916. The latter two were at the Hamburg Institutefor Ship and Tropical Diseases at the time. Apart from being a national prestige project, tropical medicine had become anglobal and internationally interactive science (➔ Media Link #bk).
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While Europe felt the threat by epidemic diseases in the 19th century especially in the case of cholera, this fear wassurpassed in large parts of Asia by the plague. The modern plague epidemic began in 1855 in the western part of the ChineseYunnan province. It claimed ten million lives in India and came to an end with a last major outbreak in Manchuria from1910–1911. Pathogens and transmission pathways were identified during these years, in particular by French physiciansAlexandre Yersin (1863–1943) (➔ Media Link #bl) and Paul-Louis Simond (1858–1947) (➔ Media Link #bm). Their work provideda basis for countermeasures, including quarantine response (➔ Media Link #bn) (➔ Media Link #bo)and isolation, disinfectionand vector control.15
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Health care in the consolidation phase of European colonies
After 1900, the activities of European doctors in the colonial areas changed significantly. Since the economic exploitation ofthe colonies, the mise en valeur, could only be achieved with local labor, their health and reproduction now also played arole. In particular, the devastating epidemics of smallpox, plague, and cholera were combated through vaccination, controls,isolation, and quarantine.
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There were also endemic, often fatal diseases caused by malaria, dysentery, hookworm, and tuberculosis. For a long time,success was limited against these diseases, which were fostered by the confined, unhygienic living conditions of theplantation and mine workers. Robert Koch's ambitious and globally acclaimed attempt to eradicate malaria in Dar es Salaam,the capital of German-East Africa, with microscopic examination of all inhabitants and quinine treatment of all plasmodiacarriers, failed because of the social conditions and the lack of vector control.16 Fecal examination for the eggs of the
hookworm was also time-consuming. The British replaced it with repeated mass treatment of the population with worm-destroying agents on the assumption the majority of people were affected.
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Leprosy was combatted through the creation of leprosy colonies (➔ Media Link #bp). The sleeping sickness epidemic in thearea of the African Great Lakes, i.e. the border region of British Uganda, Belgian Congo, and German East Africa, posed aparticular challenge. Here, there were striking national differences:17 While the Belgians in the Congo, consistent with theirreputation as a ruthless colonial power, immediately forced large population resettlements, the more careful Britishconcentrated on controlling the vector, the tsetse fly, and the animal hosts. The Germans’ trust in the chemical industry ledthem to test new substances against the trypanosomes in "concentration camps" for sleeping sickness patients. Despitecoercion, severe pain, side effects that included blindness or even death, success was elusive. Ultimately, the Germans, too,decided to resettle those villages in the midst of infested brushland.18
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People were divided up not only in terms of healthy and sick, but, even more so, colored and white. Arguing from thestandpoint of hygiene, the residential areas of the Europeans and the natives were separated. As in the case of CameroonianDuala, this also resulted in expulsions.19 In the large cities there were hospitals only for Europeans, whereas those for localstended to be founded by local benefactors. In smaller provincial hospitals, the infirmary in permanent buildings was usuallyreserved for white people, while local patients slept in huts.
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Social medicine and racism in the interwar period: the ambivalence of modernity
The end of the First World War initially caused drastic personnel changes. British doctors, who had fought the war in Africaand Asia, joined the rapidly expanding Colonial Medical Service.20 Now, increasingly recruited mission doctors were added bythe numerous new foundations and expansions of mission hospitals. After the German doctors had fled or been expelled frommost of the former German colonies, some entered the colonial service of European states not belonging to the victoriouspowers or the missionary service. Altogether this resulted in a shift from Africa to Asia, so that, for a while, the formallyindependent China and Netherlands-East Indies, today's Indonesia, could be counted among the non-Western countries withan especially large number of German doctors. It is worth noting that Swiss missionary doctors were forced to go in theopposite direction: As China had become too precarious because of military destabilization, they instead went to Africa.
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The First World War and its outcome brought about fundamental changes for health and medicine in the colonies.21 In thepreviously German colonies, disease control programs initially collapsed, while those of other colonial powers had beenweakened by wartime austerity measures. Besides the Influenza pandemic of 1918 (➔ Media Link #bq), or "Spanish flu," whichwas also common here, there were smaller outbreaks of the previously controlled diseases. Perhaps the most substantialchange, however, was the part played by the newly founded League of Nations (➔ Media Link #br). For through the League’sfounding, the hitherto German territories were entrusted to neighboring powers as mandates (➔ Media Link #bs), with theexpress obligation to provide for the welfare of the population. Compliance with this obligation was verified through reportsand inspections, not least in the area of health care. Because of this, the character of colonial rule changed fundamentally;instead of open exploitation, the temporary trusteeship was now at least the official political model.
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The required nationwide network of health facilities could only be set up with local personnel. For this reason, their trainingwas promoted in various health professions, e.g. in month-long courses as tribal dressers or in longer courses as dispensers orhospital assistants.22 Paradoxically, the associated delegation of medical tasks, e.g. injections, to non-physician staff wasfacilitated by the professionalization of nursing care, which had already taken place in the British context for many years.Medical and nursing tasks, however, were strictly differentiated. In the Spanish-speaking area, state-recognized health careremained much more doctor-centered and was thus barely accessible in the remote rural regions of Latin America.
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The expansion of health care did not by any means affect all medical services and disciplines in the same way. The focuscontinued to be on disease control and mother-child health.23 Surgical care was only slowly established in rural areas whenthe few missionary and government physicians had acquired the necessary skills. Psychiatric treatment was limited to severepsychoses that seriously interfered with living in the communities. It took place in large central institutions withconsiderable, often humiliating enforcement measures, which even greatly exceeded the conditions of European "insaneasylums".24 The flourishing field of eugenics contrived supposedly fundamental differences between the "races" not only in thearea of psychiatric care, but also more generally in the settlers' colonies.
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The hierarchical structure of the health care professions was also racist: With the exception of certain Indians and WestAfricans, who in the 19th century could already study medicine at European universities via mission societies, the highestpositions were reserved for whites. In the British colonial service, Indians could only become sub-assistant surgeons, withthere being even fewer opportunities for blacks. Such relegation led to numerous problems in health care afterindependence. The situation was marked in particular by a serious shortage of doctors, as, for instance, after the expulsion ofDutch doctors in Indonesia in the 1950s or the sudden withdrawal of Belgian doctors after the independence of the Congo in1960. There were also significant tensions with the remaining white doctors.
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A gradual departure from Eurocentrism: the World Health Organization anddecolonization
The end of the colonial era also saw the emergence of a new world order in the health sector. Categorical statements in theUnited Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Article 25) (➔ Media Link #bt) in 1948 and in the Constitution of theWorld Health Organization signaled an end to the political path of combatting epidemics out of power and economicconsiderations and an acceptance of health care as an intrinsic human right. Thus even though human rights and biomedicineare of Western origin and were therefore often problematized as foreign by representatives of African or Asian nationalism,the claim of the fundamental equality of all human beings was likewise formulated in the health sector. This universalperspective would subsequently help shape future health policy. Colonial territories and international cooperation foundfurther encouragement here in their desire to establish comprehensive health services with the training of local people andalso more academic institutions.
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For three decades, the looming Cold War thwarted an international consensus on using health systems as a way to implementthe universal right to the highest attainable standard of health. Instead, WHO returned to less controversial control anderadication programs for specific diseases. These include yaws, which had already strongly influenced the health policies ofsome tropical colonies in the 1920s and 1930s, malaria, and, finally, with lasting success, smallpox. One of the effects of thedecolonization policy (➔ Media Link #bu) on international health is worldwide accord in the area of disease control, despitedisagreement about the extent of state influence in the health care system.25 Therefore those who did not stand at risk ofcontracting one of these infectious diseases or who could not afford treatment in one of the few hospitals did not benefitfrom the international health policy of the 1950s.
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Ultimately, the goal from the late colonial period and early decolonization phase to make health care available to everyonewas not taken up again until the détente policy of the 1970s and the announcement of Primary Health Care (PHC) in Alma Atain 1978. The eight elements of PHC's work were based on measures already implemented during the colonial period: healtheducation, improved water supply and nutrition (➔ Media Link #bv), vaccinations and mother-child health programs, localdisease control, and appropriate treatment. Now, however, the implementation would be different: Instead of hierarchicalregulation from above, those affected were expected to be involved, and rather than having an isolated health care system,focus was placed on integrating health-relevant measures from other development sectors such as education or agriculture.The real change to the colonial health system was therefore not a completely different kind of medicine, but the integrationof health care into a new form of society.
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Walter Bruchhausen (➔ Media Link #bw)
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