Synopses & Reviews
Much recent work on the history of colonial medicine argues that medicine was the handmaiden of colonial power and of capitalism. Dr Bell challenges this interpretation through careful investigation of the complicated relationship between medicine, politics, and capital in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. This book includes chapters on midwifery training and female circumcision, on health and racial ideology, and on the quest to find the yellow fever virus in East Africa.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. [234]-253) and index.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations, List of Maps and Tables, List of Abbreviations
Glossary
1. The Boundaries of Colonial Medicine
2. Medical Policy and Medical Practitioners
3. The Wellcome Tropical Research Laboratories and the Organization of Research
4. Disease, Quarantine, and Racial Categories in the Gezira Irrigation Scheme
5. Sleeping Sickness and the Ordering of the South
6. The International Construction of Yellow Fever
7. Midwifery Training and the Politics of Female Circumcision
8. Conclusion
Bibliography
Index