Medicine, mobility and the empire
Nyasaland networks, 1859-1960
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ISBN-13:
9781784991463
Veröffentl:
2017
Einband:
HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
Erscheinungsdatum:
02.11.2017
Seiten:
286
Autor:
Markku Hokkanen
Gewicht:
650 g
Format:
240x161x21 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
This book makes a new contribution to histories of medicine and health in the colonial era, with particular focus on Malawi, the British Empire and Southern Africa. It argues that mobility of people, ideas and materials was crucial within the dynamic, intertwined and networked medical culture of colonial Malawi.
This book makes a new contribution to histories of medicine and health in the colonial era, with particular focus on Malawi, the British Empire and Southern Africa. It argues that mobility of people, ideas and materials was crucial within the dynamic, intertwined and networked medical culture of colonial Malawi. -- .
Introduction: medicine, mobility and the empire1 Mobilities, medicine and health in the Malawi region: networks of empire, missions and labour, c.1859-c.19602 Laypeople, professionals and the 'Livingstone tradition': assessing European health, spaces and mobilities in South-Central Africa, c.1859-c.19403 Spiritual and secular medicine in Malawian-British Protestant mission networks, c.1859-c.19404 Knowledge, secrecy and contestation: early medical encounters, c.1859-c.19305 African medical middles and migrant doctors, c.1890-c.19606 Quinine, malarial fevers and mobility: a biography of a 'European fetish', c.1859-c.19407 Colonising African medicines? Central African medicines and poisons and knowledge-making in the empire, c1859-c.1940Epilogue: mobilities, networks and the making of colonial medical cultureIndex