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  • 1 - “We Are Far More Advanced”

  • Frances S. Hasso, Duke University, North Carolina
  • Book:
    Buried in the Red Dirt
    Published online:
    25 November 2021
    Print publication:
    02 December 2021, pp 47-77
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    This chapter shows that lack of British investment in healthcare for Palestinians was systemic and endemic to a colonial ecology segmented by nationality, religion, and “race.” Palestinians disproportionately died very young of poverty, hunger, and disease during the thirty years of British colonial rule, a rate overdetermined by colonial austerity in healthcare and infrastructure provision and systemic extraction from the native population. During the same period, Zionist health and science institutions, mainly funded by investments from Western Jewish communities, improved Jewish infant, child, and maternal health in Palestine guided by a racial demographic ideology and social medicine philosophy. Palestinian elites, in turn, recognized that healthcare and health status were crucial to the Zionist enterprise of transforming the demography of Palestine by populating it with healthy Jewish bodies and that this project was vitalized by investments and a colonial civilizational discourse.