Indian doctors in Kenya, 1890-1940 : the forgotten history / Anna Greenwood and Harshad Topiwala.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Greenwood, Anna, 1971- author.

Topiwala, Harshad, 1945- author.

Contributor:

Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

Series:

Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine--Kenya--History--19th century.

Medicine.

Indians--Medicine--History.

Indians.

Traditional medicine--Kenya--History.

Traditional medicine.

Physicians--Kenya--History.

Physicians.

Ethnopharmacology.

History.

Indians--Medicine.

Kenya.

Physical Description:

x, 266 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Summary:

"This pioneering book offers unique insights into the careers of Indian doctors in colonial Kenya. As such, it deepens and broadens modern understandings of the complex constitution of the British Empire. The British Empire, although ideologically racist, nevertheless relied upon staff of all nationalities and ethnicities. Ideas and practices were imported between various colonial dependencies as much as they evolved responsively to local conditions. The book highlights the complex ambiguities of Empire; advancing modern understandings of the British Empire as a linked, multi-centred global phenomenon, while also providing a case study that enriches local understandings of the practice of medicine in a racially segregated context. Chapters examine in turn the main possible career options for Indian medical graduates as well as setting out the racial and political context of colonial Kenya. An impressively large and varied source base has been consulted throughout resulting in startling new insights into the complex operation of western medicine in this racially segregated world. "-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note:

Contents

1. 'The Empire is Not White': Indian Doctors in Kenya

2. Indians, Migration and Medicine

3. Indians, Western Medicine and the Establishment of the Protectorate

4. Race and Medicine

5. Indians in the Colonial Medical Service

6. Squeezing Indians Out of Government Medicine

7. Indian Private Doctors in Kenya

8. Private Doctors: Practising Medicine in a Segregated World.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9781137440525

113744052X

OCLC:

909198301

Publisher Number:

99963795850