PUBH 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Josiah Strong, Tropical Medicine, Superiority Complex
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Extending country"s policy and influence through diplomacy, colonization, military force. Build politico: economic interests through land, labor, raw materials, markets of other people. It"s our responsibility emerging business demands: growing industry. As superior races and christian people must bear the white man burden, social darwinism (white people are most fit/civilized) Josiah strong claimed that destiny of america to acquire new lands. Maintain health of settlers and colonial profit. Health threatened as farther into tropics (mosquitoes, tropic diseases) Origin of tropical medicine and global health. Disease eradication important: fewer people working efficiency. Government efforts in preservation and protection of health. Improve public sanitation but don"t care about labor reform. Reform labor system will ameliorate ill health. Invalidates experiences of native american excluded indigenous knowledge and existing public health practices. Focus on disease that arose as result of empire expansion. Western medicine acts imperialistically to exert power and domination over other medical traditions.
