State,peasant, mosquito: The biopolitics of public health education and malaria in early republican Turkey |
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| Authors: | Kyle T. Evered Emine Ö. Evered |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Geography, Geography Building, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824-1117, USA;2. Department of History, Morrill Hall, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824-1036, USA;1. Department of Geography, University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1251, USA;2. School of Geographical and Earth Sciences, The University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, Scotland, UK;3. School of Geography and Development, University of Arizona, Tucson AZ 85721, USA;1. College of Electrons and Information Engineering, University of Science and Technology Liaoning, Anshan 114051, China;2. Department of Electrical Engineering, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, ON, Canada P7B 5E1;1. Department of Clinical Laboratory, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China;2. Guangxi University of Chinese Medicine, Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China;3. Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China;1. School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510515, Guangdong, China;2. Institute for Chemical Carcinogenesis, State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou 510182, Guangdong, China;3. School of Public Health, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou 510310, Guangdong, China |
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| Abstract: | State officials in early republican Turkey framed malaria as both a medical and a political issue. In doing so, they engaged in public health education campaigns not only to resolve medical concerns but also to better govern the country's population and promote a broader modernist agenda. This article employs primary sources from Turkish archives and other collections in order to examine the governmental and the biopolitical implications of this experience. We thus scrutinize the civilizational discourse employed by politicians and physicians as they dealt with this “village disease,” the peoples who they encountered—and taught, and the obstacles that they perceived to exist within the traditional curative beliefs and practices found throughout rural Anatolia. Emphasizing modernist ideals in their medicine as much as in their politics, we conclude that health officials' lessons for waging an effective “war” on malaria targeted not just the disease but also its perceived societal sources of origin and—hence—the very populace it presumably sought to protect. |
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