Beyond the state : The colonial medical service in British Africa /

Beyond the state : The colonial medical service in British Africa /

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This collection of essays on the Colonial Medical Service of Africa illustrates the diversity and active collaborations to be found in the untidy reality of government medical provision. The authors present important case studies covering former British colonial dependencies in Africa, including Ken...

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Other Authors: Greenwood, Anna, 1952- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2016.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Great Britain. > Colonial Medical Service.
Great Britain > Colonial Medical Service
Medical care.
Colonies > Administration.
Health services administration.
British colonies.
MEDICAL > History.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
Colonialism & imperialism.
Delivery of Health Care > organization & administration
Delivery of Health Care > history
Physicians > history
Medical care > Africa, East > History.
Health services administration > Africa, East > History.
Africa, East.
Eastern Africa.
Afrique orientale.
Africa, Eastern
Africa, Eastern.
Great Britain > Colonies > Africa, East > Administration.
History.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Beyond the state
  • Contents
  • Notes on contributors
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1 Introduction: looking beyond the state: Anna Greenwood
  • 2 Crossing the divide: medical missionaries and government service in Uganda, 1897-1940: Yolana Pringle
  • 3 The government medical service and British missions in colonial Malawi, c.1891-1940: crucial collaboration, hidden conflicts: Markku Hokkanen
  • 4 The maintenance of hegemony: the short history of Indian doctors in the Colonial Medical Service, British East Africa: Anna Greenwood and Harshad Topiwala
  • 5 The Colonial Medical Service and the struggle for control of the Zanzibar Maternity Association, 1918-47: Anna Greenwood
  • 6 Elder Dempster and the transport of lunatics in British West Africa: Matthew M. Heaton
  • 7 Social disease and social science: the intellectual influence of non-medical research on policy and practice in the Colonial Medical Service in Tanganyika and Uganda: Shane Doyle
  • 8 Cooperation and competition: missions, the colonial state and constructing a health system in colonial Tanganyika: Michael Jennings
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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