David Livingstone's Zambesi expedition marked the beginning of an ongoing series of medical exchanges between the British and Malawians. This book explores these entangled histories by placing medicine in the frameworks of mobilities and networks that extended across Southern Africa and beyond. It provides a new approach to the study of medicine and empire.
Drawing on a range of written and oral sources, the book argues that mobility was a crucial aspect of intertwined medical cultures that shared a search for therapy in changing conditions. Mobile individuals, ideas and materials played key roles in medical networks that involved both professionals and laypeople. These networks connected colonial medicine with Protestant Christianity and migrant labour.
The book will be of value to scholars and students of history and anthropology of colonialism and medicine, as well as a wider readership interested in the plural search for health in Africa and globally.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Studies in Imperialism
- Series page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Maps and Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Glossary
- Maps
- Introduction: Medicine, mobility and the empire
- Chapter One:âMobilities, medicine and health in the Malawi region: networks of empire, missions and labour, c.1859âc.1960
- Chapter Two:âLaypeople, professionals and the âLivingstone traditionâ: assessing European health, spaces and mobilities in South-Central Africa, c.1859âc.1940
- Chapter Three:âSpiritual and secular medicine in MalawianâBritish Protestant mission networks, c.1859âc.1940
- Chapter Four:âKnowledge, secrecy and contestation: early medical encounters, c.1859âc.1930
- Chapter Five:âAfrican medical middles and migrant doctors, c.1890âc.1960
- Chapter Six:âQuinine, malarial fevers and mobility: a biography of a âEuropean fetishâ, c.1859âc.1940
- Chapter Seven:âColonising African medicines? Central African medicines and poisons and knowledge-making in the empire, c.1859âc.1940
- Epilogue: Mobilities, networks and the making of colonial medical culture
- Bibliography
- Index
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