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Beyond the state : the colonial medical service in British Africa / edited by Anna Greenwood.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in imperialism (Manchester, England)Publisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2016Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781784996789
  • 1784996785
  • 9780719089671
  • 0719089670
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 362.109676 23
LOC classification:
  • RA395.A353
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Beyond the state -- Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: looking beyond the state: Anna Greenwood -- 2 Crossing the divide: medical missionaries and government service in Uganda, 1897-1940: Yolana Pringle -- 3 The government medical service and British missions in colonial Malawi, c.1891-1940: crucial collaboration, hidden conflicts: Markku Hokkanen -- 4 The maintenance of hegemony: the short history of Indian doctors in the Colonial Medical Service, British East Africa: Anna Greenwood and Harshad Topiwala -- 5 The Colonial Medical Service and the struggle for control of the Zanzibar Maternity Association, 1918-47: Anna Greenwood -- 6 Elder Dempster and the transport of lunatics in British West Africa: Matthew M. Heaton -- 7 Social disease and social science: the intellectual influence of non-medical research on policy and practice in the Colonial Medical Service in Tanganyika and Uganda: Shane Doyle -- 8 Cooperation and competition: missions, the colonial state and constructing a health system in colonial Tanganyika: Michael Jennings -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: This collection of essays on the Colonial Medical Service of Africa illustrates the diversity and active collaborations to be found in the untidy reality of government medical provision. The authors present important case studies covering former British colonial dependencies in Africa, including Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda and Zanzibar. They reveal many new insights into the enactments of colonial policy and the ways in which colonial doctors negotiated the day-to-day reality during the height of imperial rule in Africa. The book provides essential reading for scholars and students of colonial history, medical history and colonial administration.
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Cover -- Beyond the state -- Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: looking beyond the state: Anna Greenwood -- 2 Crossing the divide: medical missionaries and government service in Uganda, 1897-1940: Yolana Pringle -- 3 The government medical service and British missions in colonial Malawi, c.1891-1940: crucial collaboration, hidden conflicts: Markku Hokkanen -- 4 The maintenance of hegemony: the short history of Indian doctors in the Colonial Medical Service, British East Africa: Anna Greenwood and Harshad Topiwala -- 5 The Colonial Medical Service and the struggle for control of the Zanzibar Maternity Association, 1918-47: Anna Greenwood -- 6 Elder Dempster and the transport of lunatics in British West Africa: Matthew M. Heaton -- 7 Social disease and social science: the intellectual influence of non-medical research on policy and practice in the Colonial Medical Service in Tanganyika and Uganda: Shane Doyle -- 8 Cooperation and competition: missions, the colonial state and constructing a health system in colonial Tanganyika: Michael Jennings -- Bibliography -- Index.

This collection of essays on the Colonial Medical Service of Africa illustrates the diversity and active collaborations to be found in the untidy reality of government medical provision. The authors present important case studies covering former British colonial dependencies in Africa, including Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda and Zanzibar. They reveal many new insights into the enactments of colonial policy and the ways in which colonial doctors negotiated the day-to-day reality during the height of imperial rule in Africa. The book provides essential reading for scholars and students of colonial history, medical history and colonial administration.

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