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Healing the African Body
British Medicine in West Africa, 1800-1860
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This timely book explores the troubled intertwining of religion, medicine, empire, and race relations in the early nineteenth century. John Rankin analyzes the British use of medicine in West Africa as a tool to usher in a "softer" form of imperialism, considers how British colonial officials, missionaries, and doctors regarded Africans, and explores the impact of race classification on colonial constructs.

Rankin goes beyond contemporary medical theory, examining the practice of medicine in colonial Africa as Britons dealt with the challenges of providing health care to their civilian employees, African soldiers, and the increasing numbers of freed slaves in the general population, even while the imperialists themselves were threatened by a lack of British doctors and western medicines.


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ISBN-13: 9780826220547
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Publication date: November, 2015
Pages: 265
Weight: 545g
Availability: Available
Subcategories: General Issues

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