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Public health in the British empire : intermediaries, subordinates, and the practice of public health, 1850-1960 / edited by Ryan Johnson and Amna Khalid.

Contributor(s): Publication details: New York : Routledge, 2012.Description: vi, 201 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780415890410 (hbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.1 JOH
Contents:
1. The Control Of Birth: Pupil Midwives In Nineteenth-Century Madras; 2. "Unscientific And Insanitary": Hereditary Sweepers And Customary Rights In The United Provinces; 3. "Left In The Hands Of Subordinates": Medicine, Language, And Power In The Colonial Medical Institutions Of Egypt And India; 4. Surviving The Colonial Institution: Workers And Patients In The Government Hospitals Of Mid-Nineteenth-Century Jamaica; 5. "A Laudable Experiment": Infant Welfare Work And Medical Intermediaries In Early Twentieth-Century Barbados; 6. Burmese Health Officers In The Transformation Of Public Health In Colonial Burma In The 1920s And 1930s; 7. Mantsemei, Interpreters, And The Successful Eradication Of Plague: The 1908 Plague Epidemic In Colonial Accra; 8. Medical Training, African Auxiliaries, And Social Healing In Colonial Mwinilunga, Northern Rhodesia (Zambia), 1945–1964; 9. The Mid-Level Health Worker In South Africa: The In-Between Condition Of The "Middle".
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1. The Control Of Birth: Pupil Midwives In Nineteenth-Century Madras;
2. "Unscientific And Insanitary": Hereditary Sweepers And Customary Rights In The United Provinces;
3. "Left In The Hands Of Subordinates": Medicine, Language, And Power In The Colonial Medical Institutions Of Egypt And India;
4. Surviving The Colonial Institution: Workers And Patients In The Government Hospitals Of Mid-Nineteenth-Century Jamaica;
5. "A Laudable Experiment": Infant Welfare Work And Medical Intermediaries In Early Twentieth-Century Barbados;
6. Burmese Health Officers In The Transformation Of Public Health In Colonial Burma In The 1920s And 1930s;
7. Mantsemei, Interpreters, And The Successful Eradication Of Plague: The 1908 Plague Epidemic In Colonial Accra;
8. Medical Training, African Auxiliaries, And Social Healing In Colonial Mwinilunga, Northern Rhodesia (Zambia), 1945–1964;
9. The Mid-Level Health Worker In South Africa: The In-Between Condition Of The "Middle".