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