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Healing the African Body : British Medicine in West Africa, 1800-1860.cJohn Rankin

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Author: John Rankin
Number of Pages: 277 pages
Published Date: 24 Nov 2015
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Publication Country: Missouri, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9780826220547
File Name: healing.the.african.body.british.medicine.in.west.africa,.1800-1860.pdf
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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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