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Book SynopsisExamines colonial medical policy and the ways in which doctors of the Colonial Medical Service dealt with the day-to-day reality of care-giving in Imperial Africa.
Table of Contents1. Introduction: looking beyond the state – Anna Greenwood
2. Crossing the divide: medical missionaries and government service in Uganda, 1897–1940 – Yolana Pringle
3. The government medical service and British missions in colonial Malawi, c.1891–1940: crucial collaboration, hidden conflicts – Markku Hokkanen
4. The maintenance of hegemony: the short history of Indian doctors in the Colonial Medical Service, British East Africa – Anna Greenwood and Harshad Topiwala
5. The Colonial Medical Service and the struggle for control of the Zanzibar Maternity Association, 1918–47 – Anna Greenwood
6. Elder Dempster and the transport of lunatics in British West Africa – Matthew M. Heaton
7. Social disease and social science: the intellectual influence of non-medical research on policy and practice in the Colonial Medical Service in Tanganyika and Uganda – Shane Doyle
8. Cooperation and competition: missions, the colonial state and constructing a health system in colonial Tanganyika – Michael Jennings
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