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The Gifts of Civilization: Germs and Genocide in Hawaii

Bushnell, O. A.·1993·University of Hawaii Press eBooks
DOI 10.1515/9780824841799
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In nine essays, Bushnell discusses the profound and various impacts on a long isolated people of infectious diseases brought by Captain James Cook in 1778 and subsequent visitors

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  • Those new psychological stresses, as well as new kinds of microbes, played important parts in the long dying of the Hawaiian race.

    “Those new psychological stresses, as well as the new kinds of microbes [diseases], most certainly played important parts in the long dying of the Hawaiian race.”

    From Social Justice as a Public Health Imperative for Kānaka Maoli (2009) · cites this paper as Bushnell, 1993

  • Psychological traumata of almost intolerable intensity and variety afflicted most Hawaiians after foreigners disrupted the indigenous society.

    “Beyond all doubt, psychological traumata of almost intolerable intensity and variety afflicted most Hawaiians after foreigners with their strange artifacts and alien values disrupted the indigenous society.”

    From Social Justice as a Public Health Imperative for Kānaka Maoli (2009) · cites this paper as Bushnell, 1993

  • The decimation of the Kānaka Maoli population in the 1800s was because of infectious diseases brought by European and American foreigners.

    “Overlapping all these drastic social and political changes in the 1800s was the decimation of the Känaka Maoli population because of infectious diseases, such as gonorrhea, syphilis, small pox and measles, brought by European and American foreigners (Bushnell, 1993).”

    From Social Justice as a Public Health Imperative for Kānaka Maoli (2009) · cites this paper as Bushnell, 1993

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Authors
Bushnell, O. A.
Corresponding author
Bushnell, O. A.
Venue
University of Hawaii Press eBooks
Publisher
University of Hawaii Press
Published
1993-12-31
DOI
10.1515/9780824841799
OpenAlex
W4235835510
Cited by
57
References
0
Citations by year
2026: 2 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 2 · 2014: 1 · 2012: 12
FWCI
9.20
Type
book
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
University of Hawaii Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Geography, Planning and Development › Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › History of Medicine and Tropical Health
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Indigenous Health and Education
Keywords
infectious diseases, disease introduction, James Cook, Cook's voyages, Polynesians, epidemics, European contact, medical history, social impact of illness

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