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

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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 (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer Nature 2023
Series:Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
Subjects:
Colonialism & imperialism
African history
History of medicine
History of religion
European history
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
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