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Social History of Medicine Advance Access published online on May 27, 2009
Social History of Medicine, doi:10.1093/shm/hkp010
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© The Author 2009. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society for the Social History of Medicine. All rights reserved.

Confronting Rabies and Its Treatments in Colonial Madagascar, 1899–1910

Eric T. Jennings*

* Department of History, University of Toronto, 100 St George Street, Toronto M5S 3G3, Canada. Email: eric.jennings{at}utoronto.ca


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Summary Rabies constituted a point of cultural tension and divergence over disease in late nineteenth-century, post-conquest Madagascar. The Pasteur Institute and colonial authorities ascribed an extraordinary importance to rabies, given the means at their disposal, and given the other epidemiological challenges facing them. Local peoples, in turn, met this expertise with some trepidation, and in some cases, outright defiance. This article considers, in turn, colonial health priorities, connections between Malagasy cures and Pasteurian remedies, as well as issues of accommodation, resistance and rumour in a colonial context.

Keywords: rabies; Madagascar; French Colonial; Antananarivo; Pasteur Institute (Institut Pasteur)


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