Country of Poxes: Three Germs and the Taking of Territory
Country of Poxes: Three Germs and the Taking of Territory Country of Poxes is the story of land theft in North America through three diseases: syphilis, smallpox and tuberculosis. The 500-year-old…
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Country of Poxes: Three Germs and the Taking of Territory
Country of Poxes is the story of land theft in North America through three diseases: syphilis, smallpox and tuberculosis. The 500-year-old debate over the origins of syphilis reflects colonial judgments of morality and sexuality that became formally entwined in medicine. These infectious diseases reveal that medical care, widely considered a magnanimous cornerstone of the Canadian state, developed in lockstep with colonial control over Indigenous land and life.Pathogens are storytellers of their time.
And tuberculosis, considered the "Indian disease," aroused intense fear of contagion that launched separate systems of care for Indigenous Peoples in a de facto medical apartheid, while white settlers retreated to sanatoria Smallpox is notoriously linked with the project of land theft, as colonizers destroyed Indigenous land, economies and life in the name of disease eradication.
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