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The making of a Pastorian empire: tuberculosis and bacteriological technopolitics in French colonialism and international science, 1890–1940

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 July 2019

Aro Velmet
Aro Velmet*
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Department of History, University of Southern California, 3502 Trousdale Parkway, Social Sciences Building (SOS) 153, Los Angeles, CA 90089–0034, USA
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*Corresponding author. Email: velmet@usc.edu
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Abstract

In the early twentieth century, scientists at the Pasteur Institute and its colonial affiliates developed a historically specific form of bacteriological technoscience, which abstracted the human–microbe relationship from its environmental and social context, and created a model for public health governance that operated at the scale of the empire, rather than at the level of individual colonies or regions. Using a case study of tuberculosis management, this article argues that the success of the Pastorian model relied on its technopolitical vision of a universal model of managing human–microbe relations, while, in reality, exploiting precisely those fissures created by the uneven political and scientific landscape of the colonial and scientific world in which it operated. Pastorian bacteriology helped imperial administrators to imagine a globe-spanning, standardized empire, while restricting public health governance to technological innovations, rather than a proposal for social hygiene that would have expanded labour and associational rights for subject populations.

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bacteriologyempireglobal healthtechnopoliticstuberculosis
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Journal of Global History , Volume 14 , Issue 2 , July 2019 , pp. 199 - 217
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The author would like to thank audiences at the Oxford Science, Technology, and Medicine seminar, the Modern Europe workshop at NYU, the University of Southern California History Department, and, in particular, Herrick Chapman, Mark Harrison, Robyn d’Avignon, Marysia Jonsson, and the anonymous reviewers of the Journal of Global History for valuable comments. The project leading to this application has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 747591.

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96 Monnais-Rousselot, ‘Preventive medicine’, p. 46.

97 Vietnamese National Archives I, Hanoi (henceforth VNA-I), RST 32.090, André Honnorat, sénateur, président de la CNDT to the Résident Supérieur du Tonkin, 30 March 1926.

98 VNA-I, RST 32.090, Directeur Local de la Santé to the Résident Supérieur du Tonkin, 18 May 1926.

99 VNA-I, RST 32.090, Ministry of the Colonies to the Resident Superieur de Tonkin, 2 March 1926.

100 VNA-I, RST 32.090, Albert Calmette, ‘L’effort national de défense contre la tuberculose’.

101 See, for instance, the report of the translation of Guérin’s brochure by Dr Nguyen Van Khai and the demand for further popularization by Mr Huy in VNA-II, GouCoch, IIB.56/094, ‘Comité d’hygiêne de la ville de Cholon, procès verbal du Comité d’Études pour la lutte contre la tuberculose’, 13 December 1924; VNA-II, GouCoch, 7163, ‘La vie saine’, December 1926.

102 ANOM, RSTNF 3864, ‘Organisation de la lutte contre la tuberculose au Tonkin’, 8 October 1936; RSTNF 1484, C. Mandel to the Ligue des Droits de l’Homme et de Citoyen, 5 October 1936; RSTNF 660, ‘Demande de capacité juridique’, 1933.

103 Vietnamese National Archives IV, Dalat (henceforth VNA-IV), S.125, Report by Hoang Mong Luong, 1939, ‘Dossier relatif aux autres épidémies dans les diverses provinces en Annam, années 1911–1938’.

104 Ibid .

105 VNA-II, GouCoch, 7193, G. Striedter, Inspecteur des Affaires Politiques et Administratives to the Gouverneur de la Colonie, 10 August 1932.

106 Ibid .

107 VNA-II, GouCoch, 7193, L’Inspecteur Général de l’Hygiène et de la Santé Publiques to the Directeur Local de la Santé en Cochinchine, 24 October 1935.

108 Ibid .

109 VNA-II, GouCoch, 7193, G. Striedter, Inspecteur des Affaires Politiques et Administratives to the Gouverneur de la Colonie, 10 August 1932.

110 ANOM, RSTNF 660, ‘Rapport du Directeur Local de la Santé sur la tuberculose au Tonkin’, 26 June 1928.

111 Ibid ., emphasis in original.

112 ANOM, RSTNF 660, ‘Note du 1er bureau’, 24 May 1928.

113 VNA-II, GouCoch, 7193, G. Striedter, Inspecteur des Affaires Politiques et Administratives to the Gouverneur de la Colonie, 10 August 1932.

114 Ibid .

115 Monnais-Rousselot, ‘Preventive medicine’, pp. 54–5.

116 AIP, BCG.37, A. Calmette, ‘Vaccination préventive de la tuberculose par le BCG’, 1933, p. 5.

117 AIP, BCG.37, Dr Lasnet, ‘Infection tuberculeuse et vaccination BCG’, 1930, pp. 8–10.

118 For a longer discussion of the limits imposed by the colonial order on determining the health effects of BCG, see Rosenberg, ‘International politics’, pp. 684–6. Rosenberg misattributes the discussion of the Indochinese état-civil to Calmette. The author was Dr Lasnet.

119 AIP, BCG.37, Dr Lasnet, ‘Infection tuberculeuse et vaccination BCG’, p. 10.

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