Photograph shows syringes with different medicines in yellow, red, orange and transparent colors that lie on a blue background. By Diana Polekhina under a free Unsplash license: https://bit.ly/4i2pjhj.

Colonial #infrastructures still shape #MedicalTechnologies even as processes of global #standardization invisibilize them

@arohelmet about the yellow fever vaccine in French colonial Africa and global health: https://doi.org/nvz9

#twitterstorians #colonialism #histbiology

Oval-shaped wordcloud displaying as its biggest, central word "vaccine" in green color. Other major words are displayed in grey and black and include "microorganisms" "biological preparation" "cure" "virus" "medical" "illness" "protection." By EpicTop10.com under a CC BY 2.0 license: https://bit.ly/40aOnfv.

How did (post-)colonial lab + public health #infrastructures create #microbial #standards? What configurations of (non-)humans did they support & how are they contested?

Read @arohelmet & @Kirchhelle's Intro to their thematic collection: https://doi.org/nvz5

#histbiology

Oval-shaped wordcloud displaying as its biggest, central word "vaccine" in green color. Other major words are displayed in grey and black and include "microorganisms" "biological preparation" "cure" "virus" "medical" "illness" "protection." By EpicTop10.com under a CC BY 2.0 license: https://bit.ly/40aOnfv.

How did (post-)colonial lab + public health #infrastructures create #microbial #standards? What configurations of (non-)humans did they support & how are they contested?

Read @arohelmet & @Kirchhelle's Intro to their thematic collection: https://doi.org/nvz5

#histbiology