Colonialism, science, and health

Public health and colonialism: a new or old problem?

Epidemiology is not alone as a discipline in facing awesome challenges. It would also be wrong to ascribe to epidemiology any particular failures; many disciplines have shared diYcult times as the world around them is restructured. What is at stake for the entire spectrum of public health disciplines—from “hard” medicine to “soft” policy—is nothing more than a need to re-think their own role in...

Income Inequality and Colonialism

This paper proposes that Colonialism is a major explanation behind today’s differences in Income Inequality among countries. We argue that colonies that received an important number of European settlers were characterized by a concentration of economic and political power in the hands of these last ones. Moreover, European settlers later achieved independence from the metropolis and were able t...

Anthropology and Colonialism

Anthropology emerged from the colonial expansion of Europe. Colonialism structured the relationship between anthropologists and the people they studied and had an effect on methodological nd conceptual formulations in the discipline. For example, the role of "objective outsider" with its resultant professional exploitation of subject matter can be viewed as an academic manifestation of colonial...

Racism, Sexism, and Colonialism

Aboriginal women in Canada carry a disproportionate burden of poor health. Aboriginal women have lower life expectancy, elevated morbidity rates, and elevated suicide rates in comparison to non-Aboriginal women (Prairie Women's Health Centre ofExcellence, 2004). Aboriginal women living on reserves have significantly higher rates of coronary heart disease, cancer, cerebrovascular disease and oth...

Colonialism and the truncation of science in Ireland and French Canada during the nineteenth century.