A Quest to be Global: The League of Nations Health Organization and Inter-Colonial Regional Governing Agendas of the Far Eastern Association of Tropical Medicine 1910-25

The League of Nations Health Organization (LNHO) (1921-46) was intended as a global organisation. This article examines the expansion of its operations into Asia in its initial period. The article draws attention to a regional governance attempt by the Far Eastern Association of Tropical Medicine (F...

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Published in:International history review 2016-01, Vol.38 (1), p.1-23
Main Author: Akami, Tomoko
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Asia
Colonialism
Expansion
global health governance
History of medicine
inter-colonialism
inter-imperialism
International organizations
Japanese public-health experts
the League of Nations Health Organization
Tropical diseases
tropical medicine
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Summary:The League of Nations Health Organization (LNHO) (1921-46) was intended as a global organisation. This article examines the expansion of its operations into Asia in its initial period. The article draws attention to a regional governance attempt by the Far Eastern Association of Tropical Medicine (FEATM) (1910-38) in 1910-23 and examines the moment when the LNHO co-opted this attempt in its quest to become global, opening a space where the inter-colonialism of the FEATM became one significant layer of the internationalism of the LNHO. The article seeks to show the crucial role Japanese public-health experts played in this convergence and also suggests that region-specific issues, raised by experts in Asia, became constitutive elements in revising the International Sanitary Convention.
ISSN:0707-5332
1949-6540
DOI:10.1080/07075332.2015.1018302