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Curing Their Ills

Name: Curing Their Ills
Brand: Polity
SKU: 39760284
Price: 23.95 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: Megan Vaughan
ISBN: 9780745668949

Megan Vaughan

Language

English

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Libristo code: 39760284

Publishers Polity, May 2013

Curing their Ills traces the history of encounters between European medicine and African societies i... Full description

Libristo code: 39760284

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Curing their Ills traces the history of encounters between European medicine and African societies in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Vaughan's detailed examination of medical discourse of the period reveals its shifting and fragmented nature, highlights its use in the creation of the colonial subject in Africa, and explores the conflict between its pretensions to scientific neutrality and its political and cultural motivations. The book includes chapters on the history of psychiatry in Africa, on the treatment of venereal diseases, on the memoirs of European 'Jungle Doctors', and on mission medicine. In exploring the representations of disease as well as medical practice, Curing their Ills makes a fascinating and original contribution to both medical history and the social history of Africa.