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174908
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Focused on colonial South India, this article presents and assesses detailed archival records of public health measures in response to plague outbreaks between 1900 and 1947. Starting in 1897 in the Madras Presidency, the colonial government strictly implemented anti-plague measures and introduced various health schemes and medical policies for plague prevention. However, despite partly vigorous government efforts, plague outbreaks could not be fully controlled. In the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the plague remains among South Asia’s most feared epidemics, with an outbreak in Surat in 1994 causing major havoc. Neither indigenous knowledge nor Western medical systems provided fully effective remedies regarding causation, cure and prevention of plague epidemics. Since the article gained new relevance in light of current struggles faced by India’s public health system in handling the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, some lessons from history emerge in the concluding discussion.
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123487
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The life of Philipp Franz von Siebold's daughter Ine, who became the first woman trained in Western medicine in Japan, came to wide popular attention in the 1970s with Yoshimura Akira's famous historical novel on the circumstances of her birth, training and subsequent career. As the child of mixed parentage, born near or perhaps even on Dejima, Ine's life symbolized the turmoil faced by Japan in its confrontation with the West in the nineteenth century. The extent to which an accurate biography of Ine can be established is, however, difficult, and the historian's quest to verify the basis of such a famous fictional account seemingly doomed to fail. This article details aspects of this quest; in so doing it raises questions around the nature of archival research, of biographical writing, and the ability of historians to understand and portray accurately the lives of those who lived in and around the foreign settlement at Dejima.
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