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Healing the African Body: British Medicine in West Africa, 1800-1860

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Examines the practice of medicine in colonial Africa. Britons dealt with the challenges of providing health care to their civilian employees, African soldiers, and the increasing numbers of freed slaves in the general population, even while the imperialists themselves were threatened by a lack of western medicines.

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Healing the African Body: British Medicine in West Africa, 1800-1860 2015, University of Missouri Press

ISBN-13: 9780826220547

Hardcover