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Public health in the British empire : Intermediaries, subordinates, and the practice of public health, 1850 - 1960

Johnson Ryan

Public health in the British empire : Intermediaries, subordinates, and the practice of public health, 1850 - 1960 - London Routledge 2012 - 201p ix

Table of contents
Introduction. Amna Khalid and Ryan Johnson
1. The Control of Birth: Pupil Midwives in Nineteenth Century Madras. Sean Lang
2. "Unscientific and Insanitary": Hereditary Sweepers and Customary Rights in the United Provinces. Amna Khalid 3. "Left in the Hands of Subordinates": Medicine, Language, and Power in the Colonial Medical Institutions of Egypt and India. James Mills
4. Surviving the Colonial Institution: Workers and Patients in the Government Hospitals of Mid Nineteenth Century Jamaica. Margaret Jones
5. "A Laudable Experiment": Infant Welfare Work and Medical Intermediaries in Early Twentieth Century Barbados. Juanita De Barros
6. Burmese Health Officers in the Transformation of Public Health in Colonial Burma in the 1920s and 1930s. Atsuko Naono
7. Mantsemei, Interpreters, and the Successful Eradication of Plague: The 1908 Plague Epidemic in Colonial Accra. Ryan Johnson
8. Medical Training, African Auxiliaries, and Social Healing in Colonial. Mwinilunga, Northern Rhodesia (Zambia), 1945-1964. Walima T. Kalusa
9. The Mid-Level Health Worker in South Africa: The In-Between Condition of the "Middle". Anne Digby

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