Medical Missionaries and Colonial Knowledge in West Africa and Europe, 1885-1914 : : Purity, Health and Cleanliness.

• Superior document: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
• Author: Ratschiller Nasim, Linda Maria.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2023.; ©2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (462 pages)

Table of Contents

• Intro
• Acknowledgements
• Cover Image
• Contents
• Abbreviations
• List of Figures
• 1 Introduction
• 1.1 Thematic Introduction
• 1.2 Research Review
• 1.2.1 Mission History and Medicine
• 1.2.2 History of Science and Tropical Medicine
• 1.2.3 Colonial History and Knowledge
• 1.3 Research Aims and Methodological Reflections
• 1.3.1 Spaces of Knowledge
• 1.3.2 Source Material
• 1.3.3 Structure of the Book
• References
• Part I Spaces of Knowledge and Meanings of Hygiene in the Nineteenth Century
• 2 The Religious Space of Knowledge: The Basel Mission, Worldwide Webs and Pietist Purity
• 2.1 Pietists, Patricians and the Social Question in Basel
• 2.1.1 Wurttemberg Pietism
• 2.1.2 The Basel Patricians
• 2.1.3 The Social Question
• 2.1.4 The Basel City Mission
• 2.2 The Web of Mission
• 2.2.1 Worldwide Webs
• 2.2.2 Grassroots Movement
• 2.2.3 Women and Children on a Mission
• 2.2.4 Beyond the City
• 2.3 Purity, Healing and Death
• 2.3.1 Pietist Purity
• 2.3.2 Healing and Deliverance Theology
• 2.3.3 Deadly Mission
• References
• 3 The Scientific Space of Knowledge: Medical Missionaries, Tropical Medicine and the Age of Hygiene
• 3.1 Medicine, Missionaries and the Microscope
• 3.1.1 Scientific Medicine and Pietism
• 3.1.2 The Question of a Medical Mission
• 3.1.3 The Medical Research Expedition of 1882-1883
• 3.1.4 The Institutionalisation of Mission Medicine
• 3.2 The Formation of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
• 3.2.1 The Question of Acclimatisation
• 3.2.2 Scientific Networks
• 3.2.3 Miasma, Germs and Tropical Hygiene
• 3.3 The Age of Hygiene
• 3.3.1 The Hygiene Movement in Basel and Beyond
• 3.3.2 Topographies of Dirt and Disease
• 3.3.3 The New Godliness of Hygiene
• References
• 4 The Colonial Space of Knowledge: The Medical Mission in West Africa, Imperial Entanglements and Colonial Cleanliness.
• 4.1 Missionaries and Knowledge in a Colonial World
• 4.1.1 Civilising Colonialism
• 4.1.2 Basel's Colonial Entanglements
• 4.1.3 The Popularity of Missionary Knowledge
• 4.2 The Basel Mission in West Africa
• 4.2.1 Slavery and West Indian Christians on the Gold Coast
• 4.2.2 Cooperation and Conflict in German Cameroon
• 4.2.3 Economics, Linguistics and Education
• 4.3 Mission Medicine and Health in the Colonies
• 4.3.1 The Basel Medical Mission in West Africa
• 4.3.2 Growing Interest in "Indigenous Hygiene"
• References
• Part II Negotiations of Hygiene "on the Margins" 1885-1914
• 5 Locating Filth: Sin, Syphilis and the Path to Purity
• 5.1 On a Hygiene Mission in West Africa
• 5.2 The Insistence on Syphilis
• 5.3 Bodily Knowledge, Individualism and Spiritual Rebirth
• References
• 6 Creating Pure Spaces: Edifices, Domesticity and the Temperance Movement
• 6.1 Architectural Means
• 6.2 Domestic Safe Havens
• 6.3 Combatting Spirits
• References
• 7 Subverting Purity: Magic, Medical Pluralism and Tenacious Syncretism
• 7.1 Of Healers and Doctors
• 7.2 The Mission Doctors as Purity Hazards
• 7.3 Tenacious Syncretism
• References
• Part III Reverberations of Hygiene 1885-1914
• 8 Shaping Colonial Science: Missionary Challenges, Racial Segregation and the Locality of Science
• 8.1 Trials from the Periphery
• 8.2 The Question of Segregation
• 8.3 The Locality of Science
• References
• 9 Soothing Weak Nerves: Tropical Anxieties, Missionary Guidance and Moral Hygiene
• 9.1 Resurging Climatic Fears
• 9.2 Missionary Advice on Moral Hygiene
• 9.3 Weak Nerves and Missionary Resilience
• 9.4 Boundaries of Colonial Rule
• References
• 10 Materialising Hygiene: Remedies, Commodities and Images
• 10.1 Materia Medica
• 10.2 The Commodification of Hygiene
• 10.3 Beyond the Colonial Gaze
• References
• 11 Conclusion.
• 11.1 Metropolitan Reflections
• 11.2 Lines of Hygiene
• 11.3 Shifts of Meanings
• References
• Appendix
• Short Biographies
• Alfred Eckhardt (BV 1139)
• Rudolf Fisch (BV 985)
• Arthur Häberlin (BV 1674)
• Friedrich Hey (BV 1261)
• Karl Huppenbauer (BV 2090)
• Ernst Mähly
• Theodor Müller (BV 1808b)
• Hermann Vortisch (BV 1537)
• Bibliography
• Index.