Dr John Manton MA MLIS MSc DPhil
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A historian by training, my research has focused on relations between leprosy control and governance in Nigeria, examining the political economy of disease and medicine in the context of the developing engagement between science and African community. This research has been funded by Wellcome Trust doctoral and fellowship grants. More generally, my work is concerned with the interactions between medical research, clinical practice, and welfare and development in Africa from historical and anthropological perspectives. I am interested in spatial aspects of colonial and post-colonial intervention in development and medical research, looking at transnational programmes and resource-driven alliances at a local level, and also in the ways in which local and institutional memories of medical research and clinical practice are encoded or obliterated in the post-colonial state in Africa and Europe.
Affiliation
Teaching
I lecture on public health histories in the global South on the History and Health module.
Research
At the School, my research will focus on a set of historical ethnographies of expertise in African medical research, public health, and development. I am also engaged in developing an overarching research agenda in capacity and resilience in African health systems, with a specific view to exploring the relations between disease, development, and poverty in connection with postcolonial conflicts and crises in sub-Saharan Africa.
With research interests in the management of epidemic and infectious diseases, and the constitution of biomedical research and disease control initiatives as development phenomena, I am keen to develop collaborative work in the globalisation of public health, disease control and prevention, and humanitarian medicine.
Research areas
- Agriculture
- Conflict
- Food
- Micronutrients
- Public health history
Disciplines
- Anthropology
- History
Disease and Health Conditions
- Disability
- Leprosy
- Malnutrition
- Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs)
- Skin disease
Regions
- Sub-Saharan Africa (all income levels)
Countries
- Cameroon
- Nigeria
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Selected publications
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Trialling drugs, creating publics: medical research, leprosy control, and the construction of a public health sphere in post-1945 Nigeria
Manton, J.
in 'States of Science' Geissler, P. Wenzel(In Press) Duke University Press (Durham, NC)
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Testing a new drug for leprosy: clofazimine and its precursors in Ireland and Nigeria, 1944-1966
Manton, J.
in 'Evidence, ethos and experiment: the anthropology and history of medical research in Africa' Geissler, P. Wenzel(In Press) Berghahn (Oxford)
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Leprosy in Eastern Nigeria and the social history of colonial skin
Manton, J.
Leprosy Review, 2011; 82(2):124-134
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Making modernity with medicine: mission, state, and community in leprosy control, Ogoja, Nigeria, 1945-1950
Manton, J.
in 'Modern Medicine and its Development beyond the West: Historical Perspectives' Ebrahimnejad, Hormoz(2009) Routledge (London) :160-183
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'The Lost Province': neglect and governance in coloial Ogoja, Nigeria
Manton, J.
History in Africa, 2008; 35:327-345
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Administering leprosy control in Ogoja Province, Nigeria, 1950-1967: a case study in government-mission relations
Manton, J.
in 'Healing Bodies, Saving Souls: Medical Missions in Asia and Africa' Hardiman, David(2006) Rodopi (Amsterdam) :307-331
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Global and local contexts: the Northern Ogoja Leprosy Scheme, Nigeria, 1945-1960
Manton, J.
História, Ciências, Saúde - Manguinhos, 2003; 10(supp. 1):209-223
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