Hokkanen Medicine, mobility and the empire

Nyasaland networks, 1859–1960
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-5261-2389-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 152, 288 Seiten, Web PDF

Reihe: Studies in Imperialism

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hokkanen, Markku

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: medicine, mobility and the empire
1 Mobilities, medicine and health in the Malawi region: networks of empire, missions and labour, c.1859–c.1960
2 Laypeople, professionals and the ‘Livingstone tradition’: assessing European health, spaces and mobilities in South-Central Africa, c.1859–c.1940
3 Spiritual and secular medicine in Malawian–British Protestant mission networks, c.1859–c.1940
4 Knowledge, secrecy and contestation: early medical encounters, c.1859–c.1930
5 African medical middles and migrant doctors, c.1890–c.1960
6 Quinine, malarial fevers and mobility: a biography of a ‘European fetish’, c.1859–c.1940
7 Colonising African medicines? Central African medicines and poisons and knowledge-making in the empire, c1859–c.1940
Epilogue: mobilities, networks and the making of colonial medical culture
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Markku Hokkanen is Lecturer in History at the University of Oulu