Medical Mercenaries and Transimperial Science : Between the Dutch East Indies and German-Speaking Europe, 1873-1920s.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ligtenberg, Monique.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (234 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Leiden University Press, 2026.

Summary:

This book offers new insights into the transimperial networks that shaped medicine in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, highlighting the crucial yet ambivalent role of foreign physicians in the Dutch Empire.

Contents:

Cover

Table of Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction. The Dutch Empire and Germanophone Europe

Transimperial Demands and German-speaking Europe

Globalising Colonial Medicine

Situating Colonial Physicians

Sources and Structure

Sources

Chapter Outline

Chapter 1. Germanophone Physicians in the Dutch East Indies: Transimperial Markets for Medical Experts

Transimperial Markets for Science &amp

Medicine

Medicine and the Military Monopoly on Knowledge

Germanophone Physicians, Medical Masculinity and the KNIL

Medical Mercenaries and the Military Labour Market

The KNIL and Transimperial Military Labour Markets

Recruitment of Physicians for the Dutch Colonial Army

From Military Medicine to Civil Health Care: Shifting Demands for Medical Expertise

National Competition and the End of Military Recruitment

From Military to Civil Medicine

Interpersonal Networks and the German-speaking Diaspora

Conclusion

Chapter 2. Medical Mercenaries and Dutch Colonial Warfare: Negotiating Race, Class, Gender, and Medicine in Aceh, c. 1880s-1890s

Medical Mercenaries and the Aceh War

The Daily Life of a Medical Mercenary

Medical Masculinities and Invisible Enemies

Medicalising Virtues and Vices in the Camps and Kampongs

"European" Doctors in the Tropics: Between Religion, Region, and Race

Racial Hierarchies in a "Creole Empire"

Gendered Knowledge and the Limits of European Medical Authority

Chapter 3. 'Men on the Spot' and Dutch Colonial Medicine: Transimperial Tensions in Early Bacteriology (1880s-1900)

German-speaking Bacteriology in a Transimperial World

Competing Explanations and Epistemic Insecurity

The Colonial Contestation of the Bacteriological Paradigm

The Practitioner's Privilege.

Contingent Categories: Colonial Ideology and Bacteriological Knowledge

Between the Field and the Laboratory

Bacteriology, Colonial Ideology, and Race

Europe in the Tropics - the Tropics in Europe

Chapter 4. From "Koelie Medicine" via Plantation Hygiene to International Public Health: German and Swiss Physicians on Sumatra's Plantation Belt

German-speaking Physicians on Sumatra's Plantation Belt

The Coolie Ordinance: The Early Days of Plantation Health Care

German-speaking Physicians and the Scientification of "Coolie" Healthcare

Race, Medicine, and the Commodification of "Coolie" Labour and Bodies

Model Villages and the Making of the 'Modern' Worker

Between Resistance and Collaboration

From Transimperial Medicine to International Public Health

Transimperial Careering and the Colonial Antecedents of International Public Health

Transimperial Medicine in an Age of Empire

Medical Masculinities and Transimperial Careering

Colonial Co-constructions of Medical Theory and Practice

Limitations and Future Avenues

Bibliography

Primary Sources

Archival Sources

Published Reports

Newspapers and Periodicals

Published Sources

Private Collections

Secondary Sources

Books and Articles

Encyclopedia

Index.

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Ligtenberg, Monique Medical Mercenaries and Transimperial Science

ISBN:

9789400605503

OCLC:

1593367307