Lenore MandersonSickness and the State
Health and Illness in Colonial Malaya, 1870 1940
Lenore is an author, editor or co-author of 29 books and some 750 articles, book chapters and reports, including Sickness and the State (1996) and Surface Tensions (2011). She edited and cowrote (with E.Cartwright and A.Hardon) the Routledge Handbook of Medical Anthropology (2016). Recent works include Connected Lives (2020, with N. Mkhwanazi), Viral Loads: Anthropologies of Urgency in the time of Covid-19 (with N.J.Burke and A.Wahlberg, 2021) and work of creative non-fiction Water's Edge (2022, with F.Gander). In 2023, she received the Bronislaw Malinowski Award for applied anthropology. After an extensive career in Australia, Lenore is now a distinguished professor of public health and medical anthropology at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, and divides her time between Johannesburg and Naarm/Melbourne.
1. Introduction: imposing the Empire
2. State statistics and corporeal reality: problems of epidemiology and evidence
3. Biology, medical ideas and the social context of illness
4. Public health and the pathogenic city
5. Sickness and the world of work: the men on the estates
6. Brothel politics and the bodies of women
7. Domestic lives: reproduction, the mother and the child
8. Conclusion: the moral logic of colonial medicine.
