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...Michael Bourdaghs Copyright © 1998 by Duke University Press 1998 The Disease of Nationalism, the Empire of Hygiene Michael Bourdaghs Reading Broken Commandment Broken Commandment (novel) (Shimazaki Toson). 'The celebrated work of recent...

...Philippa Levine Copyright © 1998 by Duke University Press 1998 6 3-1 Modernity, Medicine, and Colonialism: The Contagious Diseases Ordinances in Hong Kong and the Straits Settlements Philippa...

..., a loosely affiliated group of antipollution thinkers and activists have been exploring the relationship of human society to its environment in extremely creative and fruitful ways. Beginning with the methylmercury poisoning called “Minamata disease” of the 1950–70s, this group began what they called...

...Christopher P. Hanscom This article addresses the conjunction of disease, desire, and language in modernist Korean fiction of the late colonial period, particularly in Pak T'aewŏn's representative novella One Day in the Life of the Author, Mr. Kubo (1934). I bring to bear two central concepts...

... pollution in Beijing partly stem from a monopoly by the authorities over land and capital. Story 4. The Story of Disease from Food: how food security is compromised with the excessive use of pesticide, chemical fertilizer, and heavy metal in farming and husbandry. From the four cautionary stories is derived...

... deploying neoliberal practices and technologies centered on a new figure, here instantiated as “the Human.” In Vietnam in the early 2000s, an older social-evils-based HIV/AIDS apparatus was destabilized by new epidemiological conditions, a reproblematization of epidemic disease after SARS, and the arrival...

... by Foucault, critical studies of medicine, health, and disease have become important subfields in history, anthropology, and the humanities. But these incursions into the domain previously monopolized by biomedical research have opened...

...Warwick Anderson Copyright © 1998 by Duke University Press 1998 leprosy and Citizenship Warwick Anderson Gradually, an administrative and political space was articulated upon a therapeutic space; it tended to individualize bodies, diseases...

... that occurred in the spring or summer. Among practitioners of tra- ditional Chinese medicine (TCM) today, wenbing is the collective term for disorders that biomedicine classifies as “acute febrile diseases,” that is, dis- eases characterized...

... (the romance of man over nature, the desire for an unam- biguous resolution) has been severely undermined. The declaration reveals a deep-seated desire on the part of its authors to bring an end to a horrible disease, but it also conceals an impulse...

... venereal disease examinations and a registration system for prostitutes, began in the West during the Napoleonic era. This system, which regulated women in hopes of preserving the battle potential of military troops, spread throughout...

...: there are only hospital and not- hospital, quarantined and not-quarantined spatial areas. Similarly, within these two types of spatial area, only two types of humans exist: disease suffer- ers and nonsufferers, patients and nonpatients, coughers...

... the ‘Cradle of Smallpox’: Transformations in Discourse, 1726 – 2002” places the question of disease and its metaphors into a global context. Heinrich handily shows the intricate relation of learned bibliogra- phies, medical knowledge, state...

... an advertisement for the French hormonal product Spermin (fig. 1).1 Two men are portrayed discuss- ing the disease spermatorrhea, the involuntary emission of semen. Using a foreign locution, ha lo, the man in the Western suit and fedora speaks...

... heteronormativity. In contrast, with the social and discursive construction of HIV/AIDS identities in China, public health officials and journalists — ­elites with the power to construct a dominant definition of the disease — ­tend to use lan...

... References Anderson E. W. 1919 . “ A Summer Vacation: One of the Prophylactics against Breakdown .” Korean Mission Field 15 , no. 7 : 144 – 46 . Anderson Warwick . 1996 . “ Disease, Race, Empire .” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 70 , no. 1 : 62 – 67 . Anderson...

... disorder, especially disorder in the form of disease, that seems to invest them with legitimate political authority as they are seen to embody the cosmic state. The emphasis on health is even more evident in secretive religious movements that have...

... in Victorian England: Private Roles and Public Commitment (1990). positions 6:3 Winter 1998 764 She is completing a study of venereal disease and prostitution legislation in the British...

.... Kazama of Teikyo University about the reported relationship between AIDS and hemophilia in the US. It is “a homo disease,” he reassures the audience, “with nothing to do with hemophiliacs.” zST WOMAN It seemed...

... forth diseased images, outlining either abstract social systems in distress or disparate individuals enduring illnesses without relief. In 2011 the New York Times detailed Zhao's struggles against and later collaboration with Chinese authorities in the making and screening of his documentaries...