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  • Chapter 2 - Malaria and the Imperial Romance

  • Jessica Howell, Texas A & M University
  • Book:
    Malaria and Victorian Fictions of Empire
    Published online:
    14 December 2018
    Print publication:
    24 October 2018, pp 70-101

  • Summary

    H. Rider Haggard’s novel King Solomon’s Mines seems to perpetuate an imperial fantasy, by encouraging British readers to believe that they are separate from the severe physiological dangers of disease in Africa. However, the novel’s gothic and melodramatic qualities also highlight the unrealistic quality of this infallibility. This chapter shows that, by studying representations of malaria, one may observe the ways in which discourses of white vigor and health in imperial adventure narratives are haunted by their own counter-narratives. Sickness from malaria seems to be successfully displaced onto racial and national others, but by examining the shifting metaphors of yellowing skin, wasting, maps, parchment and mummies in the novel, one may see an underlying anxiety that tropical illness is not predictable or containable. The chapter places Haggard’s adventure fiction in dialog with discourses of South African medicine and colonialism, including the speeches of Cecil Rhodes. In conclusion, the chapter demonstrates that Haggard’s latent ambivalences about the possibility of South African colonial settlement manifest in his later life writing on disease and empire, wherein he discusses malaria at length in order to demonstrate his deep uncertainty about whites’ ability to survive in South Africa.

  • BJH volume 51 issue 3 Cover and Front matter

  • Journal:
    The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 51 / Issue 3 / September 2018
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    11 September 2018, pp. f1-f2
    Print publication:
    September 2018
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  • BJH volume 51 issue 3 Cover and Back matter

  • Journal:
    The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 51 / Issue 3 / September 2018
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    11 September 2018, pp. b1-b2
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    September 2018
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  • From corps to discipline, part one: Charles d'Almeida, Pierre Bertin and French experimental physics, 1840–1880

  • DANIEL JON MITCHELL
  • Journal:
    The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 51 / Issue 3 / September 2018
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    11 September 2018, pp. 333-368
    Print publication:
    September 2018

  • Academic careers in French science during the mid-nineteenth century were made within the Université de France, an integrated state system of secondary and higher education controlled by a centralized Parisian educational administration. Among the most respected members of the corps universitaire were Charles d'Almeida and Pierre Bertin, two historically obscure physiciens whose significance derives from their substantial contributions to the social organization, teaching and communication of French experimental physics. This two-part comparative biography uses their entwined careers to make a case for the emergence of a discipline of French experimental physics from the corps during the tumultuous politico-cultural transition from the Second Empire to the Third Republic. Of fundamental importance are disciplinary regimes of teaching and inspection within the corps, the foundation of the Société française de physique and the Journal de physique, and the diversification of the traditional pedagogical role of the Ecole normale supérieure, which, from around 1860, began to offer a career pathway for aspiring scientific researchers. Having established in this paper the socio-institutional mechanisms for the stabilization of a distinct field, in part two I characterize the epistemological–methodological aspects of French experimental physics.

  • Health by design: teaching cleanliness and assembling hygiene at the nineteenth-century sanitation museum

  • HILARY BUXTON
  • Journal:
    The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 51 / Issue 3 / September 2018
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    11 September 2018, pp. 457-485
    Print publication:
    September 2018

  • In 1878, amid a rapidly proliferating social interest in public health and cleanliness, a group of sanitary scientists and reformers founded the Parkes Museum of Hygiene in central London. Dirt and contagion knew no social boundaries, and the Parkes's founders conceived of the museum as a dynamic space for all classes to better themselves and their environments. They promoted sanitary science through a variety of initiatives: exhibits of scientific, medical and architectural paraphernalia; product endorsements; and lectures and certificated courses in practical sanitation, food inspection and tropical hygiene. While the Parkes's programmes reified the era's hierarchies of class and gender, it also pursued a public-health mission that cut across these divisions. Set apart from the great cultural and scientific popular museums that dominated Victorian London, it exhibited a collection with little intrinsic value, and offered an education in hygiene designed to be imported into visitors’ homes and into urban spaces in the metropole and beyond. This essay explores the unique contributions of the Parkes Museum to late nineteenth-century sanitary science and to museum development, even as the growth of public-health policy rendered the museum obsolete.

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