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Author Bell, Heather

Title Frontiers of medicine in the Anglo-Eqyptian Sudan, 1899-1940 / Heather Bell
Published Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 261 pages) : illustrations
Series Oxford historical monographs
Oxford historical monographs.
Contents 1. The Boundaries of Colonial Medicine -- 2. Medical Policy and Medical Practitioners -- 3. The Wellcome Tropical Research Laboratories and the Organization of Research -- 4. Disease, Quarantine, and Racial Categories in the Gezira Irrigation Scheme -- 5. Sleeping Sickness and the Ordering of the South -- 6. The International Construction of Yellow Fever -- 7. Midwifery Training and the Politics of Female Circumcision -- 8. Conclusion
Summary Much work on the history of colonial medicine is concerned with demonstrating that medicine was an arm of colonial power and of capitalism. This text challenges such an interpretation
Notes Revised and extended version of the author's doctoral thesis
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Medicine -- Sudan -- History -- 20th century
Imperialism -- Health aspects -- Sudan -- History -- 20th century
Public health -- Sudan -- History -- 20th century
Medical care -- Sudan -- History -- 20th century
Communicable diseases -- Sudan -- History -- 20th century
Medicine -- History.
History, 19th Century
Colonialism
History of Medicine
History, 20th Century
history of medicine.
Communicable diseases.
Imperialism -- Health aspects.
Medical care.
Medicine.
Public health.
Volksgezondheid.
Impérialisme -- Aspect sanitaire -- Soudan -- Histoire -- 20e siècle.
Maladies infectieuses -- Soudan -- Histoire -- 20e siècle.
Médecine -- Soudan -- Histoire -- 20e siècle.
Soins médicaux -- Soudan -- Histoire -- 20e siècle.
Santé publique -- Soudan -- Histoire.
SUBJECT Sudan
Subject Sudan.
Genre/Form Academic theses.
History.
Academic theses.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780191677694
0191677698