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.
Part 1: European Medicine and Imperial Experience 1. Manson, Ross and Colonial Medical Policy: Tropical Medicine in London and Liverpool, 1899-1914 2. Imperial Health in British India, 1857 – 1900 3. European Medicine in the Cook Islands 4. Medicine and German Colonial Expansion in the Pacific: The Caroline, Mariana and Marshall islands 5. French Colonial Medicine and Colonial Rule: Algeria and Indochina Part 2: European Medicine and Colonial Practice 6. Temperate Medicine and Settler Capitalism: On the Reception of Western Medical Ideas 7. Medical Professionalism in Colonial Carolina 8. Public Health and the Medical Profession in Nineteenth-Century Canada 9. ‘Our Salubrious Climate’: Attitudes to Health in Colonial Queensland 10. The Medical Profession in Colonial Victoria, 1834-1901 Part 3: Crises of Empire: The Politics of Race and Epidemic Disease 11. ‘The Dreadful Scourge’: Responses to Smallpox in Sydney and Melbourne, 1991-2 12. Sleeping Sickness, Colonial Medicine and Imperialism: Some Connections in the Belgian Congo 13. Typhus and Social Control: South Africa 1917-1950 14. Cholera and Colonialism in the Philippines, 1899-1903 15. The ‘Health’ of the Race’ and Infant Health in New South Wales: Perspectives on Medicine and Empire.
