Curing Their Ills: Colonial Power and African Illness
Megan Vaughan examines the connections between colonial power and illness in Africa. Curing Their Ills places medical concerns within their wider historical and political context, offering a study of colonial medicine, authority, and African experiences of disease and healing.
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Curing Their Ills explores the relationship between colonial power and illness in Africa.
Megan Vaughan examines medical concerns within the broader history of colonial rule.
The book considers how understandings of disease and efforts to address illness were connected to authority, society, and politics.
It offers a historical perspective on colonial medicine and African experiences of illness.
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