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Medical missionaries and colonial knowledge in West Africa and Europe, 1885-1914 = purity, health and cleanliness /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Medical missionaries and colonial knowledge in West Africa and Europe, 1885-1914/ by Linda Maria Ratschiller Nasim.
Reminder of title:	purity, health and cleanliness /
Author:	Ratschiller, Linda.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing : : 2023.,
Description:	xviii, 454 p. :ill., digital ; : 24 cm.;
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Missionaries, Medical - History - 19th century. - Africa, West -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-27128-1
ISBN:	9783031271281

Medical missionaries and colonial knowledge in West Africa and Europe, 1885-1914 = purity, health and cleanliness /
Ratschiller, Linda.

Medical missionaries and colonial knowledge in West Africa and Europe, 1885-1914purity, health and cleanliness /[electronic resource] :by Linda Maria Ratschiller Nasim. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2023. - xviii, 454 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies,2635-1641. - Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies..

1. Introduction -- Part I. Spaces of Knowledge and Meanings of Hygiene in the Nineteenth Century -- 2. The Religious Spaces of Knowledge: The Basel Mission, Worldwide Webs and Pietist Purity -- 3. The Scientific Space of Knowledge: Medical Missionaries, Tropical Medicine and the Age of Hygiene -- 4. The Colonial Space of Knowledge: The Medical Mission in West Africa, Imperial Entanglements and Colonial Cleanliness -- Part II. Negotiating Hygiene 'on the Margins' 1885-1914 -- 5. Locating Filth: Sin, Syphilis and the Question of Segregation -- 6. Creating Pure Spaces: Edifices, Domesticity and the Temperance Movement -- 7. Subverting Purity: Magic, Medical Pluralism and Tenacious Syncretism -- Part III. Reverberations of Hygiene 1885-1914 -- 8. Purifying Science: Missionary Challenges, Scientific Controversies and the Locality of Science -- 9. Soothing Weak Nerves: Tropical Anxieties, Missionary Guidance and Moral Hygiene -- 10. Materialising Hygiene: Materia Medica, Commodities and Sanitary Practices -- Part IV. Conclusion -- 11. Conclusion.

Open access.

This open access book offers an entangled history of hygiene by showing how knowledge of purity, health and cleanliness was shaped by evangelical medical missionaries and their encounters with people in West Africa. By tracing the interactions and negotiations of six Basel Mission doctors, who practised on the Gold Coast and in Cameroon from 1885 to 1914, the author demonstrates how notions of religious purity, scientific health and colonial cleanliness came together in the making of hygiene during the age of High Imperialism. The heyday of evangelical medical missions abroad coincided with the emergence of tropical medicine as a scientific discipline during what became known as the Scramble for Africa. This book reveals that these projects were intertwined and that hygiene played an important role in all three of them. While most historians have examined modern hygiene as a European, bourgeois and scientific phenomenon, the author highlights both the colonial and the religious fabric of hygiene, which continues to shape our understanding of purity, health and cleanliness to this day.

ISBN: 9783031271281

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-031-27128-1doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

1431546
Missionaries, Medical
--History--Africa, West--19th century.

LC Class. No.: R722

Dewey Class. No.: 610.690966

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