Local negotiation and imperial imposition: Frontiers of Medicine in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, 1899-1940

The idea of medicine as an advancing frontier of western power and knowledge has been a recurrent trope in recent colonial history. Beginning with the army and white civilian community, western medicine spread into the surrounding countryside, physically as well as metaphorically colonising the land...

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Published in:The Times higher education supplement 2000-01 (1,417), p.28
Format: Article
Language:English
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Summary:The idea of medicine as an advancing frontier of western power and knowledge has been a recurrent trope in recent colonial history. Beginning with the army and white civilian community, western medicine spread into the surrounding countryside, physically as well as metaphorically colonising the landscape, infiltrating indigenous societies in the cause of conquering disease.
ISSN:0049-3929