Medical Missionaries and Colonial Knowledge in West Africa and Europe, 1885-1914

This open access book offers an entangled history of hygiene by showing how knowledge of purity, health and cleanliness was shaped by evangelical medical missionaries and their encounters with people in West Africa. By tracing the interactions and negotiations of six Basel Mission doctors, who pract...

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Autor principal:	Ratschiller Nasim, Linda Maria
Format:	Online
Idioma:	anglès
Publicat:	Springer Nature 2023
Matèries:	Switzerland Hygiene Cleaniness Colonial medicine Medical missionaries West African history Cameroon Gold Coast Basel Religious purity High Imperialism Tropical medicine Evangelical missions Scramble for Africa History of science
Accés en línia:	ONIX_20231113_9783031271281_2
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