Physicians, colonial racism, and diaspora in West Africa /

The practice of African medicine is ancient - the source, in fact, of a great deal of Western medical knowledge from the Middle Ages onward. Until the close of the nineteenth century, African and West Indian physicians were able to work freely to protect the health of Africans and Europeans alike in...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Patton, Adell, 1936-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©1996.
Subjects:
Physicians > Africa, West > History.
Medicine > Africa, West > History.
Physicians > Political activity > Africa, West.
Physicians > history
Colonialism > history
Race Relations > history
Médecins > Afrique occidentale > Histoire.
Médecine > Afrique occidentale > Histoire.
Médecins > Activité politique > Afrique occidentale.
MEDICAL > History.
Medicine.
Physicians.
Physicians > Political activity.
Race relations.
Artsen.
Koloniale periode.
Rassendiscriminatie.
Africa, West > Race relations.
Africa, West.
Africa, Western
Afrique occidentale > Relations raciales.
Afrique occidentale.
West Africa.
West-Afrika.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. African Physicians in Time Perspective
  • 2. The Medical Profession in Africa from Ancient Times to 1800
  • 3. The Sierra Leone Nexus
  • 4. The Easmon Episode
  • 5. Colonial Medical Union and African Reaction
  • 6. M.C.F. Easmon: Protectorate Clinician-Scholar
  • 7. David Ekundayo Boye-Johnson and the Decolonization Era
  • 8. African Physicians: From the Cold War to Perestroika
  • Appendix 1: Colonial List of Qualifying Foreign Medical Schools for the Medical Register
  • Appendix 2: West Africa's Relations with the Soviet Bloc, July-September 1959
  • Appendix 3: Ghanaian Physicians Trained in the USSR and the Eastern Bloc, 1984
  • Appendix 4: Sierra Leone Doctors Trained in Soviet and Eastern-Bloc Universities, 1984 and 1967-76.

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