Practising Colonial Medicine

Author : Anna Crozier
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,8 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.

Author : Anna Crozier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Health services administration
ISBN : 0755624874

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Practising Colonial Medicine by Anna Crozier Pdf

Author : Anna Greenwood
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781784996161

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Beyond the state by Anna Greenwood Pdf

This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. The Colonial Medical Service was the personnel section of the Colonial Service, employing the doctors who tended to the health of both the colonial staff and the local populations of the British Empire. Although the Service represented the pinnacle of an elite government agency, its reach in practice stretched far beyond the state, with the members of the African service collaborating, formally and informally, with a range of other non-governmental groups. 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 Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda and Zanzibar. They reveal many new insights into the enactments of colonial policy and the ways in which colonial doctors negotiated the day-to-day reality during the height of imperial rule in Africa. The book provides essential reading for scholars and students of colonial history, medical history and colonial administration.

Author : Samir Shaheen-Hussain
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780228005148

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Fighting for a Hand to Hold by Samir Shaheen-Hussain Pdf

Launched by healthcare providers in January 2018, the #aHand2Hold campaign confronted the Quebec government's practice of separating children from their families during medical evacuation airlifts, which disproportionately affected remote and northern Indigenous communities. Pediatric emergency physician Samir Shaheen-Hussain's captivating narrative of this successful campaign, which garnered unprecedented public attention and media coverage, seeks to answer lingering questions about why such a cruel practice remained in place for so long. In doing so it serves as an indispensable case study of contemporary medical colonialism in Quebec. Fighting for a Hand to Hold exposes the medical establishment's role in the displacement, colonization, and genocide of Indigenous peoples in Canada. Through meticulously gathered government documentation, historical scholarship, media reports, public inquiries, and personal testimonies, Shaheen-Hussain connects the draconian medevac practice with often-disregarded crimes and medical violence inflicted specifically on Indigenous children. This devastating history and ongoing medical colonialism prevent Indigenous communities from attaining internationally recognized measures of health and social well-being because of the pervasive, systemic anti-Indigenous racism that persists in the Canadian public health care system - and in settler society at large. Shaheen-Hussain's unique perspective combines his experience as a frontline pediatrician with his long-standing involvement in anti-authoritarian social justice movements. Sparked by the indifference and callousness of those in power, this book draws on the innovative work of Indigenous scholars and activists to conclude that a broader decolonization struggle calling for reparations, land reclamation, and self-determination for Indigenous peoples is critical to achieve reconciliation in Canada.

Author : A. Greenwood,H. Topiwala
Publisher : Springer
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 54,5 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 : Juanita De Barros,Steven Palmer,David Wright
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135894825

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Health and Medicine in the circum-Caribbean, 1800-1968 by Juanita De Barros,Steven Palmer,David Wright Pdf

Health and medicine in colonial environments is one of the newest areas in the history of medicine, but one in which the Caribbean is conspicuously absent. Yet the complex and fascinating history of the Caribbean, borne of the ways European colonialism combined with slavery, indentureship, migrant labour and plantation agriculture, led to the emergence of new social and cultural forms which are especially evident the area of health and medicine. The history of medical care in the Caribbean is also a history of the transfer of cultural practices from Africa and Asia, the process of creolization in the African and Asian diasporas, the perseverance of indigenous and popular medicine, and the emergence of distinct forms of western medical professionalism, science, and practice. This collection, which covers the French, Hispanic, Dutch, and British Caribbean, explores the cultural and social domains of medical experience and considers the dynamics and tensions of power. The chapters emphasize contestations over forms of medicalization and the controls of public health and address the politics of professionalization, not simply as an expression of colonial power but also of the power of a local elite against colonial or neo-colonial control. They pay particular attention to the significance of race and gender, focusing on such topics as conflicts over medical professionalization, control of women’s bodies and childbirth, and competition between ‘European’ and ‘Indigenous’ healers and healing practices. Employing a broad range of subjects and methodological approaches, this collection constitutes the first edited volume on the history of health and medicine in the circum-Caribbean region and is therefore required reading for anyone interested in the history of colonial and post-colonial medicine.

Author : Roy Macleod,Milton J Lewis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000566154

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Disease, Medicine and Empire by Roy Macleod,Milton J Lewis Pdf

Originally published in 1988, the essays in this book focus primarily on colonial medicine in the British Empire but comparative material on the experience of France and Germany is also included. The authors show how medicine served as an instrument of empire, as well as constituting an imperializing cultural force in itself, reflecting in different contexts, the objectives of European expansion – whether to conquer, to occupy or to settle. With chapters from a distinguished array of social and medical historians, colonial medicine is examined in its topical, regional and professional diversity. Ranging from tropical to temperate regions, from 18th Century colonial America to 20th Century South Africa, this book is an important contribution to our understanding of the influence of European medicine on imperial history.

Author : Heather Bell
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 55,9 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 : Ryan Johnson,Amna Khalid
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 0415890411

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Public Health in the British Empire by Ryan Johnson,Amna Khalid Pdf

Public Health in the British Empire addresses the work of intermediary and subordinate personnel in relation to public health in the British empire. These individuals were not only essential for putting public health policy into practice, but could also impact its formation. They constitute one of the most important, and understudied topics in the history of British colonial medicine.

Author : William Scott Wadsworth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1910
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:24503093178

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Medicine in the Colonies by William Scott Wadsworth Pdf

Author : Harriet A. Washington
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2008-01-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780767915472

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Medical Apartheid by Harriet A. Washington Pdf

NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • The first full history of Black America’s shocking mistreatment as unwilling and unwitting experimental subjects at the hands of the medical establishment. No one concerned with issues of public health and racial justice can afford not to read this masterful book. "[Washington] has unearthed a shocking amount of information and shaped it into a riveting, carefully documented book." —New York Times From the era of slavery to the present day, starting with the earliest encounters between Black Americans and Western medical researchers and the racist pseudoscience that resulted, Medical Apartheid details the ways both slaves and freedmen were used in hospitals for experiments conducted without their knowledge—a tradition that continues today within some black populations. It reveals how Blacks have historically been prey to grave-robbing as well as unauthorized autopsies and dissections. Moving into the twentieth century, it shows how the pseudoscience of eugenics and social Darwinism was used to justify experimental exploitation and shoddy medical treatment of Blacks. Shocking new details about the government’s notorious Tuskegee experiment are revealed, as are similar, less-well-known medical atrocities conducted by the government, the armed forces, prisons, and private institutions. The product of years of prodigious research into medical journals and experimental reports long undisturbed, Medical Apartheid reveals the hidden underbelly of scientific research and makes possible, for the first time, an understanding of the roots of the African American health deficit. At last, it provides the fullest possible context for comprehending the behavioral fallout that has caused Black Americans to view researchers—and indeed the whole medical establishment—with such deep distrust.

Author : Hibba Abugideiri
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317130352

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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 : Waltraud Ernst,Biswamoy Pati,T.V. Sekher
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351678421

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Health and Medicine in the Indian Princely States by Waltraud Ernst,Biswamoy Pati,T.V. Sekher Pdf

Since the 1980s there has been a continual engagement with the history and the place of western medicine in colonial settings and non-western societies. In relation to South Asia, research on the role of medicine has focussed primarily on regions under direct British administration. This book looks at the ‘princely states’ that made up about two fifths of the subcontinent. Two comparatively large states, Mysore and Travancore – usually considered as ‘progressive’ and ‘enlightened’ – and some of the princely states of Orissa – often described as ‘backward’ and ‘despotic’ – have been selected for analysis. The authors map developments in public health and psychiatry, the emergence of specialised medical institutions, the influence of western medicine on indigenous medical communities and their patients and the interaction between them. Exploring contentious issues currently debated in the existing scholarship on medicine in British India and other colonies, this book covers the ‘indigenisation’ of health services; the inter-relationship of colonial and indigenous paradigms of medical practice; the impact of specific political and administrative events and changes on health policies. The book also analyses British medical policies and the Indian reactions and initiatives they evoked in different Indian states. It offers new insights into the interplay of local adaptations with global exchanges between different national schools of thought in the formation of what is often vaguely, and all too simply, referred to as 'western' or 'colonial' medicine. A pioneering study of health and medicine in the princely states of India, it provides a balanced appraisal of the role of medicine during the colonial era. It will be of interest to students and academics studying South Asian and imperial and commonwealth history; the history of medicine; the sociology of health and healing; and medical anthropology, social policy, public health, and international politics.

Author : Kavita Sivaramakrishnan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Medical laws and legislation
ISBN : UOM:39015080551677

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Old Potions, New Bottles by Kavita Sivaramakrishnan Pdf

Old Potions, New Bottles Is A Study Of How Indigenous Medical Learning And Practices Were Recast And Reformulated With The Coming Of Western Medicine And Western Medical Ideas Through Colonial Rule.Analysing Local Responses To Global Enforcements In A Specific Yet Massive Terrain Namely, Colonial Punjab Kavita Sivaramakrishnan Explores The Processes By Which This Region S Ayurvedic Practitioners And Publicists Set About Reordering Ideas And Mobilising Networks In Response To The Claims Of Western Medicine And Its Implicit Validation Of Colonial Rule. She Shows That Vaid Practitioners Engaged With The Scientific Authority Of Western Medicine In The Colony Through Writings And Other Efforts In A Print-Based Public Sphere. Facing Both Threat And Competition, Local Practitioners Were Forced To Address And Propagate New Forms Of Medical Reason To Legitimise And Revalidate The Indigenous Scientific Basis Of Their Learning. In Part, This Meant Reinterpreting Ayurved S Claims To Status And Authority.This Book Also Explores The Engagements Between Ayurved And Yunani Indigenous Practices, Thereby Looking Beyond The Confining Binaries Of Asian And Western Medical Systems. It Argues For An Understanding Of The Contextual Politics Of Indigenous Medicine As A Fluid And Complex Body Of Ideas As Well As Representations Of Religious Identities And Linguistic Alignments. Vaid Claims To Patronage And Representation Now Meant Nothing Less Than Recasting Vaid Identity In Punjab; And This Was Marked By Irregular Alignments And Multiple Imaginings. In Showing This, The Author Suggests New Perspectives On Hindu Reformist Politics, Its Ambiguities And Fractures. Patrons And Publicists In The Medical Public Sphere Were Forging New Forms Of Sikh Community Identity And A Hindu Nation-In-The-Making, Even As They Were, Simultaneously And Disparately, Projecting An Altered Vocabulary Of Ayurvedic Learning In Hindi And Gurmukhi.Drawing Upon Years Of Fieldwork Across Punjab, Kavita Sivaramakrishnan Examines, Alongside The Standard Archives, A Vast Number Of Vernacular Pamphlets, Tracts And Magazines Many For The First Time. This Is Supplemented And Enriched By Interviews With Ayurvedic Practitioners And Families Of Hereditary Practitioners, As Well As Data From Private Collections And Diaries That Have Never Been Accessed Until Now.

Author : Narin Hassan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781317151579

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Diagnosing Empire by Narin Hassan Pdf

Examining the emerging figure of the woman doctor and her relationship to empire in Victorian culture, Narin Hassan traces both amateur and professional 'doctoring' by British women travelers in colonial India and the Middle East. Hassan sets the scene by offering examples from Victorian novels that reveal the rise of the woman doctor as a fictional trope. Similarly, medical advice manuals by Victorian doctors aimed at families traveling overseas emphasized how women should maintain and manage healthy bodies in colonial locales. For Lucie Duff Gordon, Isabel Burton, Anna Leonowens, among others, doctoring natives secured them access to their private lives and cultural traditions. Medical texts and travel guides produced by practicing women doctors like Mary Scharlieb illustrate the relationship between medical progress and colonialism. They also helped support women's medical education in Britain and the colonies of India and the Middle East. Colonial subjects themselves produced texts in response to colonial and medical reform, and Hassan shows that a number of "New" Indian women, including Krupabai Satthianadhan, participated actively in the public sphere through their involvement in health reform. In her epilogue, Hassan considers the continuing tradition of women's autobiographical narrative inspired by travel and medical knowledge, showing that in the twentieth- and twenty-first century memoirs of South Asian and Middle Eastern women doctors, the problem of the "Woman Question" as shaped by medical discourses endures.