Medicine, mobility and the empire Nyasaland Networks, 1859–1960

Name: Medicine, mobility and the empire
Author: Markku Hokkanen

Auteur: Markku Hokkanen

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Markku Hokkanen

Engels
Hardcover
9781784991463
04 oktober 2017
288 pagina's

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This book makes a new contribution to histories of medicine and health in the colonial era, with particular focus on Malawi, the British Empire and Southern Africa. It argues that mobility of people, ideas and materials was crucial within the dynamic, intertwined and networked medical culture of colonial Malawi.

David Livingstone’s Zambesi expedition marked the beginning of a series of dynamic medical encounters, exchanges and connections 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, expanding the ways in which medicine and colonialism can be investigated.

Drawing on a range of archival, published and oral sources, the book argues that mobility was a crucial aspect of intertwined medical cultures that shared a search for medicines and health in changing conditions. Mobile individuals, ideas and materials played key roles in the networks that facilitated medical practice and the production of medical knowledge. British ideas and practices of healthy living and mobility in South-Central Africa were made and contested in networks that connected professionals and laypeople. For some Malawians, the partly overlapping networks of transatlantic Protestant Christianity, colonial medicine and migrant labour offered new connections and access to medicines, knowledge and expertise – although these networks were also contested and limiting. Through networked studies of spiritual medicine, quinine and colonial interests in Malawian medicines, key aspects of mobile medicine are explored further, revealing new connections between the imperial metropole, colonies, missions and emerging pharmaceutical industries.

This 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 the modern world.

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Bindwijze: Hardcover
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 04 oktober 2017
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Hoofdauteur: Markku Hokkanen
Hoofduitgeverij: Manchester University Press

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Editie: 1
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Product breedte: 156 mm
Product hoogte: 21 mm
Product lengte: 234 mm
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Verpakking hoogte: 21 mm
Verpakking lengte: 234 mm
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Categorieën: Geneeskunde & Verpleging

Geschiedenis

Geneeskunde algemeen

Geschiedenis van de geneeskunde

Periodes

Moderne tijd (1800-1945)

Hedendaagse geschiedenis ( v.a. 1945)

Regio's & Landen

Afrika

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Taal: Engels
Beschikbaarheid: Leverbaar
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