Frontiers Of Medicine In The Anglo Egyptian Sudan 1899 1940

Author : Heather Bell
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1999-06-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191542831

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Frontiers of Medicine in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, 1899-1940 by Heather Bell Pdf

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. Subverting the accepted wisdom that colonial medicine consisted primarily of white male doctors treating black patients, Dr Bell highlights the important role of women and of African and non-European practitioners of Western medicine. She moves beyond the realm of medical practice to consider the relationship between medical research and colonial power. And she argues that a new international medicine emerged during the interwar period, modifying and even supplanting existing colonial relationships. Frontiers of Medicine examines the physical, epidemiological, and professional boundaries that endlessly preoccupies colonial officials. Emphasising the tenuousness of colonial power, it 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. Accepted wisdom maintains that colonial medicine consisted primarily of white doctors treating black patients, that it was mainly about medical practice, and that it was driven by colonial relationships. Dr Bell subverts these notions with detailed evidence of the participation of women and native Africans as trained medical personnel in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, and demonstrates the tenuousness of colonial power in practice. There are chapters on midwifery training and female circumcision, on health and racial ideology, and on the quest to find yellow fever virus in East Africa. Dr Bell also investigates the relationship between colonial power and medical research, arguing that a new international medicine emerged during the inter-war period.

Author : Heather Bell
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780198207498

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Frontiers of Medicine in the Anglo-Eqyptian Sudan, 1899-1940 by Heather Bell Pdf

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.

Author : Heather Bell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0198207492

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Frontiers of Medicine in the Anglo-Eqyptian Sudan, 1899-1940 by Heather Bell Pdf

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. 'Frontiers of Medicine' examines the physical, epidemiological, and professional boundaries that endlessly preoccupies colonial officials. Emphasising the tenuousness of colonial power, it 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. Accepted wisdom maintains that colonial medicine consisted primarily of white doctors treating black patients, that it was mainly about medical practice, and that it was driven by colonial relationships. Dr Bell subverts these notions with detailed evidence of the participation of women and native Africans as trained medical personnel in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, and demonstrates the tenuousness of colonial power in practice. There are chapters on midwifery training and female circumcision, on health and racial ideology, and on the quest to find yellow fever virus in East Africa. Dr Bell also investigates the relationship between colonial power and medical research, arguing that a new international medicine emerged during the inter-war period.

Author : Heather Bell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Medicine
ISBN : OCLC:53583721

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Medical Research and Medical Practice in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, 1899-1940 by Heather Bell Pdf

Author : Ann Crichton-Harris
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047428855

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Poison in Small Measure: Dr. Christopherson and the Cure for Bilharzia by Ann Crichton-Harris Pdf

In Khartoum in 1917, Dr. Christopherson injected seventy bilharzia patients with antimony tartrate and cured them. This biography examines the life of this medical pioneer, his fight for priority and professional survival against the politics of exclusion in colonial Africa.

Author : Francis Dube
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030475352

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Public Health at the Border of Zimbabwe and Mozambique, 1890–1940 by Francis Dube Pdf

This book is the first major work to explore the utility of the border as a theoretical, methodological, and interpretive construct for understanding colonial public health by considering African experiences in the Zimbabwe-Mozambique borderland. It examines the impact of colonial public health measures such as medical examinations/inspections, vaccinations, and border surveillance on African villagers in this borderland. The book asks whether the conjunction of a particular colonized society, a distinctive kind of colonialism, and a particular territorial border generated reluctance to embrace public health because of certain colonial circumstances which impeded the acceptance of therapeutic alternatives that were embraced by colonized people elsewhere. It asks historians to look elsewhere for similar kinds of histories involving racialized application of public health policies in colonial borderlands.

Author : Simon Mollan
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030276362

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Imperialism and Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa by Simon Mollan Pdf

This book examines the economic and business history of Sudan, placing Sudan into the wider context of the impact of imperialism on economic development in sub-Saharan Africa. From the 1870s onwards British interest(s) in Sudan began to intensify, a consequence of the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869 and the overseas expansion of British business activities associated with the Scramble for Africa and the renewal of imperial impulses in the second half of the nineteenth century. Mollan shows the gradual economic embrace of imperialism in the years before 1899; the impact of imperialism on the economic development of colonial Sudan to 1956; and then the post-colonial economic legacy of imperialism into the 1970s. This text highlights how state-centred economic activity was developed in cooperation with British international business. Founded on an economic model that was debt-driven, capital intensive, and cash-crop oriented–the colonial economy of Sudan was centred on cotton growing. This model locked Sudan into a particular developmental path that, in turn, contributed to the nature and timing of decolonization, and the consequent structures of dependency in the post-colonial era.

Author : H.A Hellyer,Robert Springborg
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780755643622

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The Egyptian Revolution of 1919 by H.A Hellyer,Robert Springborg Pdf

The 1919 Egyptian revolution was the founding event for modern Egypt's nation state. So far there has been no text that looks at the causes, consequences and legacies of the 1919 Egyptian Revolution. This book addresses that gap, with Egyptian and non-Egyptian scholars discussing a range of topics that link back to that crucial event in Egyptian history. Across nine chapters, the book analyzes the causes and course of the 1919 revolution; its impacts on subsequent political beliefs, practices and institutions; and its continuing legacy as a means of regime legitimation. The chapters reveal that the 1919 Egyptian Revolution divided the British while uniting Egyptians. However, the “revolutionary moment” was superseded by efforts to restore Britain's influence in league with a reassertion of monarchical authority. Those efforts enjoyed tactical, but not long-term strategic success, in part because the 1919 revolution had unleashed nationalist forces that could never again be completely contained. The book covers key issues surrounding the 1919 Egyptian Revolution such as the role played by Lord Allenby; internal schisms within the British government struggling to cope with the revolution; Muslim-Christian relations; and divisions among the Egyptians.

Author : A. Greenwood,H. Topiwala
Publisher : Springer
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137440532

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Indian Doctors in Kenya, 1895-1940 by A. Greenwood,H. Topiwala Pdf

This ground-breaking book offers unique insights into the careers of Indian doctors in colonial Kenya during the height of British colonialism, between 1895 and 1940. The story of these important Indian professionals presents a rare social history of an important political minority.

Author : Omar Dewachi
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781503602694

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Ungovernable Life by Omar Dewachi Pdf

Iraq's healthcare has been on the edge of collapse since the 1990s. Once the leading hub of scientific and medical training in the Middle East, Iraq's political and medical infrastructure has been undermined by decades of U.S.-led sanctions and invasions. Since the British Mandate, Iraqi governments had invested in cultivating Iraq's medical doctors as agents of statecraft and fostered connections to scientists abroad. In recent years, this has been reversed as thousands of Iraqi doctors have left the country in search of security and careers abroad. Ungovernable Life presents the untold story of the rise and fall of Iraqi "mandatory medicine"—and of the destruction of Iraq itself. Trained as a doctor in Baghdad, Omar Dewachi writes a medical history of Iraq, offering readers a compelling exploration of state-making and dissolution in the Middle East. His work illustrates how imperial modes of governance, from the British Mandate to the U.S. interventions, have been contested, maintained, and unraveled through medicine and healthcare. In tracing the role of doctors as agents of state-making, he challenges common accounts of Iraq's alleged political unruliness and ungovernability, bringing forth a deeper understanding of how medicine and power shape life and how decades of war and sanctions dismember projects of state-making.

Author : Hibba Abugideiri
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317130369

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Gender and the Making of Modern Medicine in Colonial Egypt by Hibba Abugideiri Pdf

Gender and the Making of Modern Medicine in Colonial Egypt investigates the use of medicine as a 'tool of empire' to serve the state building process in Egypt by the British colonial administration. It argues that the colonial state effectively transformed Egyptian medical practice and medical knowledge in ways that were decidedly gendered. On the one hand, women medical professionals who had once trained as 'doctresses' (hakimas) were now restricted in their medical training and therefore saw their social status decline despite colonial modernity's promise of progress. On the other hand, the introduction of colonial medicine gendered Egyptian medicine in ways that privileged men and masculinity. Far from being totalized colonial subjects, Egyptian doctors paradoxically reappropriated aspects of Victorian science to forge an anticolonial nationalist discourse premised on the Egyptian woman as mother of the nation. By relegating Egyptian women - whether as midwives or housewives - to maternal roles in the home, colonial medicine was determinative in diminishing what control women formerly exercised over their profession, homes and bodies through its medical dictates to care for others. By interrogating how colonial medicine was constituted, Hibba Abugideiri reveals how the rise of the modern state configured the social formation of native elites in ways directly tied to the formation of modern gender identities, and gender inequalities, in colonial Egypt.

Author : M.W. Daly,Jane Hogan
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2005-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047416104

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Images of Empire by M.W. Daly,Jane Hogan Pdf

This book combines important and often historic photographs with text to illustrate the value of photographs for the study of modern African history in general and of the Sudan, Africa's largest country and one of its most varied.

Author : John Farley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780195166316

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To Cast Out Disease by John Farley Pdf

This is the first history of the Rockefeller Foundation's International Health Division (1913-1951), which was one of the most important public health agencies of the 20th century, a precursor of the World Health Organization. Based on extensive primary research, the book is enlivened with character sketches and descriptions of the conflicts among the "medical barons" who ran the division as they attempted to eradicate many serious diseases and to set up schools of public health and nursing around the world.

Author : Cherry Leonardi
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9781847010674

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Dealing with Government in South Sudan by Cherry Leonardi Pdf

Explores various aspects of chiefly authority in South Sudan from its historical origins and evolution under colonial, postcolonial and military rule, to its current roles and value in the newly independent country.

Author : Anna Crozier
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2007-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857715890

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Practising Colonial Medicine by Anna Crozier Pdf

The role of the Colonial Medical Service - the organisation responsible for healthcare in British overseas territories - goes to the heart of the British Colonial project. Practising Colonial Medicine is a unique study based on original sources and research into the work of doctors who served in East Africa. It shows the formulation of a distinct colonial identity based on factors of race, class, background, training and Colonial Service traditions, buttressed by professional skills and practice. Recruitment to the Medical Service bound its members to the Colonial Service ethos exemplified by the principles of the legendary Sir Ralph Furse, head of Colonial Office recruitment to the Service. Thus the Service was to be a corps d'élite consisting of Furse's 'good men' - self-reliant, practical, conscientious, professionally qualified people whose personalities were 'such as to command the respect and trust of the native inhabitants of the colony'. Professsional qualifications were important but 'secondary to character'. Anna Crozier analyses all aspects of recruitment, qualifications, training as well as the vital personal factors that shaped the Service's character - religion, a sense of adventure, professional interest, ideas of imperial service, family traditions, professional ties, perceptions of service to humanity and the building up of a common service mentality among colonial medical staff. This is the first comprehensive history of the Colonial Medical Service and makes an important contribution to our understanding of the social and cultural aspects of medical history.