Transnational entanglements in colonial medicine
This article presents an almost unknown chapter of Dutch-German colonial history: the participation of German medical practitioners in the colonial health service of the Dutch East Indies. In the period of investigation (1816-1884) around 320 Germans could be identified, who were employed in this se...
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| description | This article presents an almost unknown chapter of Dutch-German colonial history: the participation of German medical practitioners in the colonial health service of the Dutch East Indies. In the period of investigation (1816-1884) around 320 Germans could be identified, who were employed in this service as military or civil doctors, as well as apothecaries. In the first part some general aspects of the topic are outlined, such as the current state of research, the definition of subject matter and time frame. In the second part, use will be made of the complementary terms “cooperation” and “competition” for illustrating both the motivation of the Germans for entering colonial health service, and the methods which were applied in order to recruit Germans for this service. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-8a8dc34c4fee485095871e60adeb77362023-02-09T16:10:27ZengPresses universitaires du MidiHistoire, Médecine et Santé2263-89112557-21132016-11-0110637810.4000/hms.1035Transnational entanglements in colonial medicinePhilipp TeichfischerThis article presents an almost unknown chapter of Dutch-German colonial history: the participation of German medical practitioners in the colonial health service of the Dutch East Indies. In the period of investigation (1816-1884) around 320 Germans could be identified, who were employed in this service as military or civil doctors, as well as apothecaries. In the first part some general aspects of the topic are outlined, such as the current state of research, the definition of subject matter and time frame. In the second part, use will be made of the complementary terms “cooperation” and “competition” for illustrating both the motivation of the Germans for entering colonial health service, and the methods which were applied in order to recruit Germans for this service.http://journals.openedition.org/hms/1035German colonizationcolonial medicineDutch-German relationshipcompetitioncooperation |
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| title | Transnational entanglements in colonial medicine |
| title_full | Transnational entanglements in colonial medicine |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Transnational entanglements in colonial medicine |
| title_short | Transnational entanglements in colonial medicine |
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| topic | German colonization colonial medicine Dutch-German relationship competition cooperation |
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