Sensationalising Africa: British Medical Impressions of Sub-Saharan Africa, 1890-1939
Sensationalising Africa: British Medical Impressions of Sub-Saharan Africa, 1890-1939
复制标题
轰动非洲：英国对撒哈拉以南非洲的医学印象，1890-1939 年
DOI：
10.1080/03086530701523398
复制
发表时间：
2007
期刊：
影响因子：
--
通讯作者：
Crozier A
中科院分区：
文献类型：
--
作者：
Crozier A
在关于撒哈拉以南非洲殖民时期的流行医学著作中，有强烈反复出现的修辞重点，本文将其称为“耸人听闻”的非洲大陆的例子。这个描述性的标签旨在将戏剧化概括在关于非洲的医学写作中，并强调有夸大围绕非洲健康的概念的倾向。文章探讨了三个主要趋势：白人殖民医生的英雄主义；非洲环境被认为对欧洲人的心理具有危险；以及土著人民在自己的疾病经历中明确和含蓄的罪责。有趣的是，其中一些修辞倾向是如此根深蒂固，以至于即使在生物医学解释证明许多热带疾病是通过昆虫媒介传播之后，它们仍然存在(尽管是以稀释的形式)。
There are strongly recurring rhetorical emphases within popular medical writing about colonial sub-Saharan Africa, which this paper labels as examples of ‘sensationalising’ the continent. This descriptive tag aims to encapsulate the dramatisation within medical writing about Africa and stresses the inclination to exaggerate conceptions surrounding its health. Three main trends are explored: the perceived heroism of the white colonial doctor; the danger that the African environment was thought to have for the European psyche; and the explicit, and implicit, culpability of the indigenous people in their own experiences of illness. Interestingly, some of these rhetorical tendencies were so culturally embedded that they persisted (albeit in diluted form) even after biomedical explanations proved many tropical diseases were spread by insect vectors.