Frontiers of Medicine in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan 1899-1940 (Oxford Historical Monographs)

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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.


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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.


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