What happened to the Institute of Public Health project in Tokyo in the 1920s?
Tag: history of public health
When Medicine Met Diplomacy (Part III): The “Tokyo Project”
What was the Rockefeller Foundation’s “Tokyo Project”?
When Medicine Met Diplomacy (Part II)
How did American medical professionals design and learn from the 1923 Japanese Medical Commission to the United States for the promotion of “American medicine”?
Seinfeld, “The Junior Mint,” and How Medical Knowledge Lands in the Public Sphere
Despite its infamy as a “show about nothing,” Seinfeld’s “Junior Mint” (1993) episode is emphatically about medicine—medical knowledge, the medical world, medical “miracles”. More specifically, it centers on how the ‘general population’ receives medical knowledge. Interwoven subplots caricature the routes through which information about the body’s illnesses and healings pass into what we might call…
Colonial Lit(t)eraria: Topographies of Purity and Pollution on the Bank of the Ganga
Is there a link between the histories of the sanitation of the Hooghly and the formation of a discourse of sanitary womanhood in colonial Calcutta? The river in question, Hooghly or Ganga, was the epitome of pollution for the British while being synonymous with purity for the colonized Hindu. The historian Pratik Chakrabarti makes an…
Gay Men and Lesbians, Alcohol Addiction, and the 1970s
John A. Carranza // In 2018, I wrote a piece on Oliver Sipple, the gay man who foiled an assassination attempt on President Gerald Ford. In the aftermath of that attempt, Sipple’s life, including his sexuality, became public. In the years since he stopped the assassination his drinking had increased, which exacerbated some of the…