TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chircop,John
TI  - Chapter 8 Quarantine sanitization, colonialism and the construction of the 'contagious Arab' in the Mediterranean, 1830s-1900
T2  - Social Histories of Medicine
PY  - 2018///
PB  - Manchester University Press
KW  - European history
KW  - bicssc
KW  - History of medicine
KW  - Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900
KW  - Social & cultural history
KW  - Society & social sciences
KW  - 19th century
KW  - arab body
KW  - Arabs
KW  - Cholera
KW  - european colonialism
KW  - Hajj
KW  - Hejaz
KW  - Hygiene
KW  - islamic mediterranean
KW  - Lazaretto
KW  - Mecca
KW  - muslim identity
KW  - Public health
KW  - Quarantine
KW  - sanitary councils
N1  - Open Access
N2  - This chapter investigates the setting up of a network of lazarettos along the southern and eastern littorals of the Mediterranean during the nineteenth century. The fundamental thesis is that these lazarettos, constructed and frequently directed by Europeans, sustained the expansion of Western colonialism in the region. Starting with an investigation of the workings of the first Sanitary Councils - in North Africa and Ottoman-ruled ports - which preceded the International Sanitary Conferences, the study then goes on to show how maritime quarantine catered for the European powers' commercial, shipping and imperial interests in the region. By examining the regulations and the actual practices of disinfection adopted in these lazarettos, this chapter also shows how these institutions constructed and/or consolidated stereotypes of the 'Muslim Arab' as a 'threatening contagious body.'
UR  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30515
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/ba62c12b-7130-4850-88b6-d70702553ce2/645514.pdf
ER  -