ArgumentThe paper argues that epidemic surveillance and state-building were closely interconnected in interwar Poland. Starting from the paper technology of weekly epidemiological reporting it discusses how the reporting scheme of Polish epidemics came into being in the context of a typhus epidemic in 1919–20. It then shows how the statistics regarding nation-wide epidemics was put into practice. It is only when we take into account these practices that we can understand the epidemiological order the statistics produced. The preprinted weekly report form registered Jews and Christians separately. Yet, the imagined national epidemiological space that emerged from it hardly took notice of this separation. Rather, the category that differentiated Polish epidemiological space in medical discourse was the capacity of contributing to the state-making practices of epidemic surveillance. This category divided Poland into two regions: a civilized and modern western region and a backward and peripheral eastern region.

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两次世界大战期间波兰的流行病学国家建设：话语和纸张技术

论点该论文认为，在两次世界大战期间的波兰，流行病监测和国家建设密切相关。从每周流行病学报告的纸质技术开始，它讨论了波兰流行病的报告计划是如何在 1919-20 年斑疹伤寒流行的背景下形成的。然后展示了如何将全国流行病的统计数据付诸实践。只有当我们考虑到这些做法时，我们才能理解统计数据产生的流行病学顺序。预印的每周报告表分别登记了犹太人和基督徒。然而，由此产生的想象中的国家流行病学空间几乎没有注意到这种分离。相当，在医学话语中区分波兰流行病学空间的类别是为流行病监测的国家制定实践做出贡献的能力。这一范畴将波兰划分为两个区域：文明现代的西部区域和落后的外围东部区域。