TY  - BOOK
AU  - Anna Greenwood
AU  - Harshad Topiwala
TI  - Indian doctors in Kenya, 1895-1940: the forgotten history 
T2  - Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series
SN  - 9781137440525 (hardback)
U1  - 610.690 961 62 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - United Kingdom
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Medicine History India
KW  - Medicine Kenya
KW  - Traditional Medicine Kenya
KW  - Doctors History Kenya
KW  - Ethnopharmacology
KW  - Applied Sciences
N2  - "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. "--
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