Medical missionaries and colonial knowledge in West Africa and Europe, 1885-1914 : purity, health and cleanliness

Medical missionaries and colonial knowledge in West Africa and Europe, 1885-1914 : purity, health and cleanliness / Linda Maria Ratschiller Nasim.

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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Main Author: Ratschiller Nasim, Linda Maria, 1987- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Series:Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series.
Subjects:
1800-1999
Missionaries, Medical > Africa, West > History > 19th century.
Missionaries, Medical > Africa, West > History > 20th century.
Missionaries, Medical
West Africa
History
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