Tropical Medicine – Art Hx: Visual and Medical Legacies of British Colonialism

Medicalized Space

May 31, 2023

Colonial Visuality and the Expert Gaze in Visual Cultures of “Tropical Medicine”

Pathologies of Difference

April 22, 2022

Colonizers’ Medicines

A print from a wood engraving showing a rolling hilly landscape with countless young trees in orderly rows in the background,and numerous stumps of cut trees on the right. Several men stand and sit in the foreground; many are dressed in suits and hold canes, and others are dressed in robes. Two figures on the right hold tools, and the man in the center, likely meant to be Denison, carries a shovel in his left hand. Two young figures dressed in more casual clothing sit at the base of a tree to the left.

Cultivating Care

March 23, 2022

Sir William Denison’s Quinine Plantation