ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|100 pages
European Medicine and Imperial Experience
chapter 1|17 pages
Manson, Ross and colonial medical policy
chapter 4|23 pages
Medicine and German colonial expansion in the Pacific
part II|98 pages
European Medicine and Colonial Practice
chapter 6|18 pages
Temperate medicine and settler capitalism
part III|99 pages
Crises of Empire