Book contents
- When Disease Came to This Country
- Global Health Histories
- When Disease Came to This Country
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Place Names
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 When Scarlet Fever Came to This Country
- 3 Colonial Motifs and Medicine
- 4 The Gold Rush and After
- 5 Infrastructures of Extraction, Sanitation, and Care
- 6 Race, Gender, and Control
- 7 Experiences of Influenza
- 8 Colonial Ecologies
- 9 A Smouldering Fire
- 10 Epilogue and Conclusions
- Appendix: Cause of Death Database
- Select Bibliography
- Index
6 - Race, Gender, and Control
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 July 2023
Book contents
- When Disease Came to This Country
- Global Health Histories
- When Disease Came to This Country
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Place Names
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 When Scarlet Fever Came to This Country
- 3 Colonial Motifs and Medicine
- 4 The Gold Rush and After
- 5 Infrastructures of Extraction, Sanitation, and Care
- 6 Race, Gender, and Control
- 7 Experiences of Influenza
- 8 Colonial Ecologies
- 9 A Smouldering Fire
- 10 Epilogue and Conclusions
- Appendix: Cause of Death Database
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Summary
As elsewhere in the global history of colonial health, public health and the control of infectious diseases turned Indigenous bodies and lands into sites where the state sought to assert greater control – and met significant resistance. This chapter considers these dynamics through a focus on vaccines, quarantines, and efforts to forcibly relocate sick northerners between 1900 and 1920. Particular attention is given to smallpox epidemics that spread widely and were a main vehicle for public health measures, but caused few deaths.
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- When Disease Came to This CountryEpidemics and Colonialism in Northern North America, pp. 154 - 189Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023