Beyond the state : : the Colonial Medical Service in British Africa / / Anna Greenwood.

• Superior document: Studies in imperialism
• VerfasserIn: Greenwood, Anna, 1971-
• Place / Publishing House: Manchester, UK : : Manchester University Press,, 2016, 2015.; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Edition: MSI edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in imperialism (Manchester, England)
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (208 pages) :; illustrations (black & white), tables; digital, PDF file(s).
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

The Colonial Medical Service was the personnel section of the Colonial Service, employing the doctors who tended to the health of both the colonial staff and the local populations of the British Empire. Although the Service represented the pinnacle of an elite government agency, its reach in practice stretched far beyond the state, with the members of the African service collaborating with a range of other non-governmental groups. This collection of essays shows the diversity and active collaborations to be found in the untidy reality of government medical provision.

Table of Contents

1. 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 -- Bibliography -- Index.