Curing Their Ills
Colonial Power and African Illness
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Beschreibung
Curing their Ills traces the history of encounters betweenEuropean medicine and African societies in the nineteenth andtwentieth centuries. Vaughan's detailed examination of medicaldiscourse of the period reveals its shifting and fragmented nature,highlights its use in the creation of the colonial subject inAfrica, and explores the conflict between its pretensions toscientific neutrality and its political and cultural motivations.
The book includes chapters on the history of psychiatry inAfrica, on the treatment of venereal diseases, on the memoirs ofEuropean 'Jungle Doctors', and on mission medicine. In exploringthe representations of disease as well as medical practice,Curing their Ills makes a fascinating and originalcontribution to both medical history and the social history ofAfrica.
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Megan Vaughan
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Geschichte Geschichte der Neuzeit (1780-1900) History History Special Topics Modern History (1780-1900) Spezialthemen Geschichte Weltgeschichte World History
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'The book gives an excellent account of the biomedical 'discourse'in Africa and on how this discourse changed over time... Vaughanexplores in an interesting way the associations that were made inthe colonial literature between notions of illness, gender andsexuality, madness, nature and the construction of the African.'Times Higher Education Supplement
'An important and imaginative study of value to students ofsociety and medicine in general' Journal of Imperial andCommonwealth History
'This is an original and penetrating book written in a mostattractive style and showing how much vivid material survives inneglected papers of colonial doctors.' History Today
'Curing Their Ills is beautifully written; the complexargument is made disarmingly simple and clear. It must surely jointhe growing list of outstanding contemporary reinterpretations ofimperial medicine and society.' Journal of HistoricalGeography
"... Challenging and original. The overall thesis is compelling...... The great value of Vaughan's study is exactly its breadth andthe way she explores a variety of diseases and different kinds ofbiomedical discourse. ... The ambition and novelty of this studymust be welcomed, not least for the ways it shows how the historyof colonial or tropical medicine can be linked to the wider socialhistory of colonialism." Social History of Medicine
"... This is a rich and rewarding book that should haveconsiderable appeal for scholars concerned with the interplaybetween medicine, culture and colonialism." Journal of SouthernAfrican Studies
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