Medical Missionaries and Colonial Knowledge in West Africa and Europe, 1885-1914 : : Purity, Health and Cleanliness.
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Year of Publication: | 2023 |
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505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
505 | 8 | |a 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. | |
505 | 8 | |a 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. | |
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