ABSTRACT The central piece in Cairo medical school’s museum is a painting portraying the school’s first dissection lesson. Dissection was central to the agenda of the school’s founder, Antoine Barthelemy Clot (d. 1868). In Clot’s narrative, dissection was key to modern scientific education. In his writings, he chronicled what he believed to be his students’ resistance and disgust with the practice. This article investigates the emotional underwriting of colonial science, and explores the role played by disgust in constructing colonial narratives of progress and scientific authority, and in the postcolonial narratives of colonial and precolonial history. It argues that disgust, along with similar emotions, functions on a moral economy that underwrites and authorizes the production of colonial scientific authority.

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两个学生和一具尸体：殖民知识制造中的厌恶语义

摘要 开罗医学院博物馆的中心作品是一幅描绘学校第一堂解剖课的画作。解剖是学校创始人 Antoine Barthelemy Clot (d. 1868) 议程的核心。在克洛特的叙述中，解剖是现代科学教育的关键。在他的著作中，他记录了他认为是他的学生对这种做法的抵制和厌恶。本文调查了殖民科学的情感承托，并探讨了厌恶在建构殖民进步叙事和科学权威，以及在殖民和前殖民历史的后殖民叙事中所起的作用。它认为，厌恶以及类似的情绪，在支持和授权殖民科学权威产生的道德经济中起作用。