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Practising Colonial Medicine: The Colonial Medical Service in British East Africa
Anna Crozier
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Description for Practising Colonial Medicine: The Colonial Medical Service in British East Africa
A study based on original sources and research into the work of doctors who served in East Africa. This book shows the formulation of a distinct colonial identity based on factors of race, class and Colonial Service traditions. It analyses several aspects of recruitment, training and the personal factors that shaped the Service's character. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFG; MBX; MMRT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 163 x 241 x 24. Weight in Grams: 516.
The role of the Colonial Medical Service - the organisation responsible for healthcare in British overseas territories - goes to the heart of the British Colonial project. Practising Colonial Medicine is a unique study based on original sources and research into the work of doctors who served in East Africa. It shows the formulation of a distinct colonial identity based on factors of race, class, background, training and Colonial Service traditions, buttressed by professional skills and practice. Anna Crozier analyses all aspects of recruitment, qualifications, training as well as the vital personal factors that shaped the Service's character ... Read more
The role of the Colonial Medical Service - the organisation responsible for healthcare in British overseas territories - goes to the heart of the British Colonial project. Practising Colonial Medicine is a unique study based on original sources and research into the work of doctors who served in East Africa. It shows the formulation of a distinct colonial identity based on factors of race, class, background, training and Colonial Service traditions, buttressed by professional skills and practice. Anna Crozier analyses all aspects of recruitment, qualifications, training as well as the vital personal factors that shaped the Service's character ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.
Number of pages
272
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845114596
SKU
V9781845114596
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Ref
99-5
About Anna Crozier
Anna Crozier is a Research Fellow at the Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare, Glasgow, at the University of Strathclyde. She researches the history of colonial medicine in East Africa and is currently engaged in a medical history of Zanzibar.
Reviews for Practising Colonial Medicine: The Colonial Medical Service in British East Africa
`An excellent book, definive in its treatment of the British colonial medical service, and of interest to all historians of British rule' - Wm. Roger Louis, Kerr Professor at the University of Texas at Austin 'This is an outstandingly well-researched study of the Colonial Medical Service in East Africa up to the eve of World War II. It not ... Read more