Public Health in the British Empire

Intermediaries, Subordinates, and the Practice of Public Health, 1850-1960
Herausgeber: Johnson, Ryan; Khalid, Amna

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Produktbeschreibung

Over the last several decades, historians of public health in Britain's colonies have been primarily concerned with the process of policy making in the upper echelons of the medical and sanitary administrations. Yet it was the lower level staff that formed the backbone of public health systems in the colonies. Although they constituted the bases of many colonies' public health machinery, there is no consolidated study of these individuals to date. Public Health in the British Empire addresses this gap by bringing together historians studying intermediary and subordinate staff across the British Empire. Along with investigating the duties and responsibilities of medical and non-medical intermediary and subordinate personnel, the contributors to this volume show how the subjectivity of these agents influenced the manner in which they discharged their duties and how this in turn shaped policy. Even those working as low level assistants and aids were able to affect policy design. In this way, Public Health in the British Empire brings into sharp relief the disaggregated nature of the empire, thereby challenging the understanding of the imperial project as an enterprise conceived of and driven from the center.

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Public Health in the British Empire addresses the work of intermediary and subordinate personnel in relation to public health in the British empire. These individuals were not only essential for putting public health policy into practice, but could also impact its formation. They constitute one of the most important, and understudied topics in the history of British colonial medicine.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780415890410
• ISBN-10: 0415890411
• Artikelnr.: 31891714

Autorenporträt

Amna Khalid is Assistant Professor in South Asian History at Carleton College. Her research interests lie at the intersection of South Asian history, the history of medicine and British colonial history in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She is also interested in the study of sacred spaces as foci of epidemics as well as sites of worship, healing and 'queer' sexuality. She is currently developing a project on Sufi shrines in Cape Town. Ryan Johnson completed his D.Phil at the University of Oxford on British imperial tropical medicine. Currently he is Lecturer in History at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, where he is embarking on a study of public health in British West Africa, with a particular focus on intermediate and subordinate personnel.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Amna Khalid and Ryan Johnson 1. The Control of Birth: Pupil
Midwives in Nineteenth Century Madras. Seán Lang 2. "Unscientific and
Insanitary": Hereditary Sweepers and Customary Rights in the United
Provinces. Amna Khalid 3. "Left in the Hands of Subordinates": Medicine,
Language, and Power in the Colonial Medical Institutions of Egypt and
India. James Mills 4. Surviving the Colonial Institution: Workers and
Patients in the Government Hospitals of Mid Nineteenth Century Jamaica.
Margaret Jones 5. "A Laudable Experiment": Infant Welfare Work and Medical
Intermediaries in Early Twentieth Century Barbados. Juanita De Barros 6.
Burmese Health Officers in the Transformation of Public Health in Colonial
Burma in the 1920s and 1930s. Atsuko Naono 7. Mantsemei, Interpreters, and
the Successful Eradication of Plague: The 1908 Plague Epidemic in Colonial
Accra. Ryan Johnson 8. Medical Training, African Auxiliaries, and Social
Healing in Colonial. Mwinilunga, Northern Rhodesia (Zambia), 1945-1964.
Walima T. Kalusa 9. The Mid-Level Health Worker in South Africa: The
In-Between Condition of the "Middle". Anne Digby