Markku Hokkanen

Medicine, mobility and the empire

Nyasaland networks, 1859-1960

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. November 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 650g
• ISBN-13: 9781784991463
• ISBN-10: 1784991465
• Artikelnr.: 48386592

Autorenporträt

Markku Hokkanen is Lecturer in History at the University of Oulu

Inhaltsangabe

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