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Medical Missionaries and Colonial Knowledge in West Africa and Europe, 1885-1914

Purity, Health and Cleanliness

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Palgrave Macmillan


Paru le : 2023-11-02



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This open access book offers an entangled history of hygiene by showing how knowledge of purity, health and cleanliness was shaped by evangelical medical missionaries and their encounters with people in West Africa. By tracing the interactions and negotiations of six Basel Mission doctors, who practised on the Gold Coast and in Cameroon from 1885 to 1914, the author demonstrates how notions of religious purity, scientific health and colonial cleanliness came together in the making of hygiene during the age of High Imperialism. The heyday of evangelical medical missions abroad coincided with the emergence of tropical medicine as a scientific discipline during what became known as the Scramble for Africa. This book reveals that these projects were intertwined and that hygiene played an important role in all three of them. While most historians have examined modern hygiene as a European, bourgeois and scientific phenomenon, the author highlights both the colonial and the religious fabric of hygiene, which continues to shape our understanding of purity, health and cleanliness to this day.
Pages
454 pages
Collection
n.c
Parution
2023-11-02
Marque
Palgrave Macmillan
EAN papier
9783031271274
EAN PDF
9783031271281
Informations sur l'ebook
Nombre pages copiables
4
Nombre pages imprimables
45
Taille du fichier
7496 Ko
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EAN EPUB
9783031271281
Informations sur l'ebook
Nombre pages copiables
4
Nombre pages imprimables
45
Taille du fichier
5069 Ko
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Linda Maria Ratschiller Nasim is a Postdoctoral Researcher and teaching Fellow at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. Previously, she studied History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge, in the UK, and Contemporary History at the University of Fribourg.

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