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Healing the African Body: British Medicine in West Africa, 1800-1860
Healing the African Body British Medicine in West Africa 18001860
Author: John Rankin
This timely book explores the troubled intertwining of religion, medicine, empire, and race relations in the early nineteenth century. John Rankin analyzes the British use of medicine in West Africa as a tool to usher in a ?softer? form of imperialism, considers how British colonial officials, missionaries, and doctors regarded Africans, and exp...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780826220547
ISBN-10: 0826220541
Publication Date: 11/17/2015
Pages: 272
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Publisher: University of Missouri
Book Type: Hardcover
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