Beyond the state, The colonial medical service in British Africa

Year

2016

Publisher

Manchester University Press

Language

English

Pages

Link

Last Update

24-Mar-2026

Keywords

History ; Health Sciences

Description

There is no fresh news in stating that the history of colonial medicine has changed considerably in the last seventy-five years. As academic interests have expanded, attention has moved away from triumphalist accounts of the conquest of disease in former European colonies to a more critical, less ethno-centric and more socially inclusive examination of the complex relationships between colonial states and colonised societies. Yet, despite much self-congratulation at achieving a comparatively nuanced understanding of these relationships, glaring gaps remain and there is work still to be done. Although certain colonial institutions and policies have been revisited and reassessed by historians...