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- Title
Dr Hirszfeld's War: Tropical Medicine and the Invention of Sero-Anthropology on the Macedonian Front.
- Authors
Mikanowski, Jacob
- Abstract
This article investigates the Macedonian Front as an experimental space and scene of international scientific cooperation, with particular reference to the work of Dr Ludwik Hirszfeld, who conducted foundational research in sero-anthropology while serving with the Serbian Army in Salonica. The Allied Armies stationed on the Macedonian Front in the First World War were crippled by malaria. They responded by enlisting the help of leading practitioners in the field of tropical medicine. These experts instructed doctors from the metropole in sanitation and treatment strategies. These doctors in turn formed networks of information exchange and conducted their own research on diseases with which they were otherwise unfamiliar. For his inquiry into the global distribution of blood groups, Hirszfeld drew on a network of scientific collaborators made possible by these novel circumstances, as well as on the remarkable diversity of human subjects assembled around Salonica by the exigencies of global war.
- Subjects
SERBIA; GREECE; THESSALONIKE (Greece); HIRSZFELD, Ludwik, 1884-1954; MALARIA; SERBIA. Army; WORLD War I &; society; HISTORY of diseases; TROPICAL medicine; EXPERIMENTAL medicine; HISTORY of anthropology; HISTORY
- Publication
Social History of Medicine, 2012, Vol 25, Issue 1, p103
- ISSN
0951-631X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/shm/hkr024