Humanities & Social Sciences

Beyond the state

The colonial medical service in British Africa

by Anna Greenwood, Andrew Thompson, John M. MacKenzie

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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.

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The Colonial Medical Service was the personnel section of the Colonial Service, employing the doctors who tended to the health of both colonial staff and the local populations of the British Empire. Although the Service represented the pinnacle of an elite government agency, solely serving official British imperial ambitions, 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, such as missionaries or those with commercial ties to the continent. Inevitably, the African Colonial Medical Service was regularly susceptible to outward pressures from non-governmental healthcare providers and its response was far less uniform in approach and constitution than the Colonial Office would have its public believe. In this, the first book to look at the colonial medical services of British Africa, a group of the world's leading researchers in this field have been brought together to illustrate central themes that illuminate the diversity and active collaborations to be found in the untidy reality of government medical provision. The authors present important case studies in a series of fascinating essays covering former British colonial dependencies in Africa, including Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda and Zanzibar. These studies reveal many new insights into colonial policy and the ways in which colonial doctors dealt with day-to-day reality during the height of imperial rule in Africa. The collection provides essential reading for scholars and students of colonial history, medical history and colonial administration. It will also be of interest to doctors and ex-colonial officials.

Author Biography

Anna Greenwood is Assistant Professor in the History of British Imperialism at the University of Nottingham; ; John MacKenzie is Emeritus Professor of Imperial History, Lancaster University and holds Honorary Professorships at Aberdeen, St Andrews and Stirling, as well as an Honorary Fellowship at Edinburgh.

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Bibliographic Information

  • Publisher Manchester University Press
  • Publication Date January 2019
  • Orginal LanguageEnglish
  • ISBN/Identifier 9781526137074 / 1526137070
  • Publication Country or regionUnited Kingdom
  • FormatPDF
  • ReadershipGeneral/trade; College/higher education; Professional and scholarly
  • Publish StatusPublished
  • Dimensions234 X 156 mm
  • SeriesStudies in Imperialism
  • Reference Code11795

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