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Malariology and decolonization: Eastern European experts from the League of Nations to the World Health Organization

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Abstract

The article de-centres the global history of disease by examining the agency of Eastern European expertise at international organizations and during decolonization. It challenges accounts of anti-malaria policies at the League of Nations Health Organization and at the World Health Organization written from a Western, particularly North American perspective, or on the basis of local reactions to Western interventions. The contribution proposes an analysis of circulations and ideas across multiple cultural, social and political spaces: post-imperial European states, (post)colonial territories and bureaucracies of international organizations. From the 1920s to the 1960s, Eastern European experts played a crucial role in the transformation of malaria from an imperial disease that tested governance over ‘tropical’ peoples into an issue of global health and nation-state building. However, regional representatives reproduced civilizational hierarchies intrinsic to North–South biomedical relations. The global entanglements of Eastern European malariology show that liberation from disease was less about communism or liberalism, and more about national renewal, statehood and world hierarchies.

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MalariaEastern EuropeDecolonizationCold WarEradicationGlobal Health
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Journal of Global History , Volume 17 , Issue 2: Special Issue: Towards a Global History of International Organizations and Decolonization , July 2022 , pp. 233 - 253
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The author acknowledges the support of the project ‘Socialism Goes Global: Cold War Connections Between the “Second” and “Third Worlds”’ (funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council-United Kingdom, grant no. AH/M001830/1), the Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies, the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Program under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant no. 754513, and the Aarhus University Research Foundation. I also acknowledge the grant of the Romanian National Authority for Scientific Research and Innovation, CNCS-UEFISCDI, project number PN-III-P4-ID-PCE-2020-1337.

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17 Borowy, Coming, 454.

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24 Borowy, Coming, 16.

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31 Quoted in Borowy, Coming, 245.

32 Idem.

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38 Johnson, Malaria, 127.

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43 For Ciucă’s views Iftimovici, Fraţii, 10.

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46 Amrith, Decolonizing, 42.

47 Ana Antić, ‘Imagining Africa in Eastern Europe: Transcultural Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis in Cold War Yugoslavia’, Contemporary European History 28, no. 2 (2018): 251.

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49 Iftimovici, Frații, 193–4.

50 Ibid., 189.

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53 Johnson, Malaria, 145–6.

54 Ibid., 182–5 and 188–94.

55 Braun, ‘From Landscapes’, 526.

56 Paula Michaels, Curative Powers: Medicine and Empire in Stalin’s Central Asia (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003), 4–10.

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58 The Central Field Health Station was created in 1931 by LNHO and the Chinese National Government to coordinate state medical activities. It emulated Eastern European institutes of hygiene. Until 1938 it was managed by Berislav Borčić, Andrija Štampar’s closest collaborator and the director of the National School of Hygiene in Zagreb. Yubin Shen, Malaria and Global Networks of Tropical Medicine in Modern China, 1919–1950 (Ph.D. diss., Georgetown University, 2017), 95–8 and Borowy, ‘Thinking’, 210–2. On interwar Chinese epidemiology see Mary Brazelton, Mass Vaccination: Citizens’ Bodies and State Power in Modern China (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019), 15–32.

59 Cueto et al., The World, 28.

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62 Ibid., 174.

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64 For a critique by a colonial medical official of Mihai Ciucă’s alledged failure to understand ‘tropical’ conditions see Edmond Sergent, ‘Work of the Malaria Commission of the League of Nations since 1930’, 16 September 1938, LN/CH/Malaria/268, 9–10.

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70 Cueto et al., The World, 38–39.

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73 Yves Biraud to Andrija Štampar, 4 January 1947, WHO 453/2/1, 11.

74 ‘Expert Committee on Malaria, Report on the First Session’, Geneva, 22-25 April 1947, WHO.IC/83, 9.

75 Cueto et al., The World, 62.

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77 ‘Memorandum on the Expert Committee on Malaria of WHO’, 7 October 1948, WHO1/453/2/15, 3–5.

78 Mihai Ciucă, ‘Memorandum’, 27 April 1948, WHO.IC/Mal.24, 2.

79 ‘Expert Committee on Malaria, Report on the First Session’, Geneva, 22-25 April 1947, WHO.IC/83, 14.

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81 Pearson, The Colonial, 159–72 and James Gillespie, ‘Europe, America, and the Space of International Health’, in Shifting, ed. Solomon et al., 132.

82 Official Records WHO no. 13, First WHA, Geneva, June 24–July 24, 1948, 40.

83 Ibid., 41.

84 Pearson, The Colonial, 52–60.

85 Official Records WHO no. 13, 300.

86 Ibid., 121.

87 Idem.

88 Amrith, Decolonizing, 53 and 62.

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90 Stepan, Eradication, 114; Marcos Cueto, Cold War, Deadly Fevers Malaria Eradication in Mexico, 1955–1975 (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007), 24.

91 ‘Opinions of Members of the Ad-hoc Expert Committee on Malaria Concerning Recommendations to Governments on Measures Advised for Malaria Control’, WHO/EB3/10 Add.1, 15 February 1949, 3

92 Ibid., 4.

93 Ibid., 4, 7.

94 Ibid., 9.

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96 John Farley, Brock Chisholm, the World Health Organization, and the Cold War (Vancouver: University of British Columbia, 2008), 160–5.

97 Webb, The Long, 94–5.

98 Hong, Cold War, 25.

99 Amrith, Decolonizing, 115.

100 Stepan, Eradication, 122.

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102 ‘Report on the Second Malaria Conference of the Countries of South-East Europe’, 26–29 March 1957, WHO/Mal/187/EURO-107/2, 1953–1957, 2–9; ‘Report on the Third Malaria Conference for South-East European Countries’, Bucharest 23–30 June 1958, WHO/Mal/205 EURO-107.3, 10–38; Leonard Bruce-Chwatt and Julian de Zulueta, The Rise and Fall of Malaria in Europe (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980), 29–33, 42–52, 63–5, 146–66.

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104 Andreas Hilger, ‘Communism, Decolonization and the Third World’, in Cambridge History of Communism. Volume 2: The Socialist Camp and World Power 1941–1960s, eds. N. Naimark, S. Pons and S. Quinn-Judge (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017), 352.

105 ‘Conferința de Paludism – iulie 1958’ (Malaria Conference – July 1958), OMS, MSPS, 188-9.

106 ‘Report on the Third Malaria Conference’, 26.

107 On Soviet quasi-colonial policies towards nomads in Kazakhstan see Michaels, Curative, 153–8. On the transfer by Yugoslav physicians of their narratives about primitiveness and modernization in Macedonia to Guinea see Antić, ‘Imagining’, 242. On the overlap between civilizational visions of Romanian doctors and FRELIMO see Bogdan Iacob and Iolanda Vasile, ‘Agents of Decolonization? Romanian Activities in Mozambique’s Oil and Health Sectors (1976–1984)’, in Spaces of Interaction between the Socialist Camp and the Global South, eds. Anna Calori et al. (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019), 157–8.

108 ‘Fond Special Eradicarea Paludismului’ (Special Collection, Eradication of Malaria) MSPS, Secretariat şi Relații cu Străinătatea, OMS 1958–1963, 144 and 42–1.

109 D. Sgîndăr, ‘Probleme tehnice’ (Administrative Matters), MSPS, Secretariat și Relații cu Străinătatea, CP-OMS 1962, 14.

110 Gabriele Gramiccia, ‘Report on a Visit to Moscow - Malaria Eradication Training Center, 14-21 March 1962’, Malaria-Eradication-Training 1959-1973, WHO7.0574, 1–3.

111 Artemy Kalinovsky, Laboratory of Socialist Development: Cold War Politics and Decolonization in Soviet Tajikistan (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2018), 20.

112 Michaels, Curative, 125–6.

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114 Aso, ‘Patriotic’, 440–1.

115 Alexei Lysenko, ‘Epidemiology of Malaria’, METC Doc-196, 1960, WHO7.0862, 39.

116 Ibid., 58.

117 Packard, A History, 162.

118 Swaroop and Guckel, ‘Report’, 4; Gabriele Gramiccia, ‘Rapporte sur une visite en Roumanie et Bulgarie’, 17–31 October 1959, Rapoarte 1958–61, OMS, MSPS, 89–95; Leonard Bruce-Chwatt, ‘USSR: Victory Ahead in a Long Campaign’, UNESCO Courier, 13 (1960), 17 and 32.

119 Projects Afro-2002, Malaria Consultant Services – West Africa, JKT 1, 1967–1974, WHO 22.0659, 1.

120 Ann Kelly, ‘Seeing Cellular Debris, Remembering a Soviet Method’, Visual Anthropology 29, no. 2 (2016): 133–58.

121 Official Records WHO, no. 111, 14th WHA, New Delhi, 7-24 February 1961, 186.

122 Ibid., 104.

123 Ibid., 105.

124 ‘Explanatory Memorandum and Draft Resolution submitted by the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics’, 19 January 1961, 14th WHA, A14/P&B/10, 1–7.

125 Official Records WHO, no. 111, 308.

126 Official Records WHO No. 136, 17th WHA, Geneva, 3-20 March 1964, 243.

127 Ibid., 170.

128 Ibid., 242; Official Records of WHO No. 128, 16th WHA, Geneva 7-23 1963, 176; Official Records of WHO No. 144, 18th WHA, Geneva, 4-21 May 1965, 247.

129 Official Records of WHO No. 144, 28.

130 Ibid., 213.

131 ‘Continentul african și eradicarea malariei. Interviu cu Gh. Lupașcu’ (The African Continent and the Eradication of Malaria. Interview with Gh. Lupașcu’), Muncitorul Sanitar, 4 December 1965, 4.

132 Boris Petrovskij (USSR’s minister of health) in Official Records WHO no. 152, 85.

133 M. Aldea (Romania) in Ibid, 234–5.

134 WHA 20.14, Malaria Eradication Program, 2.

135 Ibid., 1.

136 Lysenko and Semashko, ‘Geography’, 35 and 38.

137 Ibid., 37.

138 Official Records of WHO no. 161, 20th WHA, Geneva, 8–26 May 1967, 227.

139 Cueto et al., The World, 108.

140 In Algeria all epidemiologists who managed local districts were ‘of foreign origin’, that is from socialist countries. ‘Quatrième trimestre – Pre-éradication du paludisme, 1965’, WHO/M2/372/3 (b) Malaria Eradication in Algeria, JKT 1&2, 1963–1967, 2.

141 Erez Manela, ‘Smallpox Eradication and the Rise of Global Governance’, in The Shock of the Global: The 1970s in Perspective, eds. N. Ferguson and C. Maier (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2010), 251–62.

142 Webb, The Long, 105–11; Packard, A History, 284.

143 Zimmer, ‘In the Name’, 141.

144 Y.F. Li et al., ‘Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane Usage in the Former Soviet Union’, Science of the Total Environment 357 (2006): 141–3; Aso, ‘Patriotic Hygiene’, 441.

145 Iftimovici, Fraţii, 9.

146 Socrates Litsios, ‘Revisiting Bandoeng’, Social Medicine 8, no. 3 (2014): 113; Claudia Prinz, ‘Between “Local Knowledge’ and ‘Global Reach”: Diarrhoeal Diseases Control and the International Health Agenda’, Comprativ 43, no. 4–5 (2013): 96.