Medical Missionaries and Colonial Knowledge in West Africa and Europe, 1885-1914 : Purity, Health and Cleanliness

Medical Missionaries and Colonial Knowledge in West Africa and Europe, 1885-1914 Purity, Health and Cleanliness

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Ratschiller Nasim, Linda Maria (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cham : Springer International Publishing AG 2023.
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009781183906719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Acknowledgements
  • Cover Image
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • List of Figures
  • 1 Introduction
  • 1.1 Thematic Introduction
  • 1.2 Research Review
  • 1.2.1 Mission History and Medicine
  • 1.2.2 History of Science and Tropical Medicine
  • 1.2.3 Colonial History and Knowledge
  • 1.3 Research Aims and Methodological Reflections
  • 1.3.1 Spaces of Knowledge
  • 1.3.2 Source Material
  • 1.3.3 Structure of the Book
  • References
  • Part I Spaces of Knowledge and Meanings of Hygiene in the Nineteenth Century
  • 2 The Religious Space of Knowledge: The Basel Mission, Worldwide Webs and Pietist Purity
  • 2.1 Pietists, Patricians and the Social Question in Basel
  • 2.1.1 Wurttemberg Pietism
  • 2.1.2 The Basel Patricians
  • 2.1.3 The Social Question
  • 2.1.4 The Basel City Mission
  • 2.2 The Web of Mission
  • 2.2.1 Worldwide Webs
  • 2.2.2 Grassroots Movement
  • 2.2.3 Women and Children on a Mission
  • 2.2.4 Beyond the City
  • 2.3 Purity, Healing and Death
  • 2.3.1 Pietist Purity
  • 2.3.2 Healing and Deliverance Theology
  • 2.3.3 Deadly Mission
  • References
  • 3 The Scientific Space of Knowledge: Medical Missionaries, Tropical Medicine and the Age of Hygiene
  • 3.1 Medicine, Missionaries and the Microscope
  • 3.1.1 Scientific Medicine and Pietism
  • 3.1.2 The Question of a Medical Mission
  • 3.1.3 The Medical Research Expedition of 1882-1883
  • 3.1.4 The Institutionalisation of Mission Medicine
  • 3.2 The Formation of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
  • 3.2.1 The Question of Acclimatisation
  • 3.2.2 Scientific Networks
  • 3.2.3 Miasma, Germs and Tropical Hygiene
  • 3.3 The Age of Hygiene
  • 3.3.1 The Hygiene Movement in Basel and Beyond
  • 3.3.2 Topographies of Dirt and Disease
  • 3.3.3 The New Godliness of Hygiene
  • References
  • 4 The Colonial Space of Knowledge: The Medical Mission in West Africa, Imperial Entanglements and Colonial Cleanliness.
  • 4.1 Missionaries and Knowledge in a Colonial World
  • 4.1.1 Civilising Colonialism
  • 4.1.2 Basel's Colonial Entanglements
  • 4.1.3 The Popularity of Missionary Knowledge
  • 4.2 The Basel Mission in West Africa
  • 4.2.1 Slavery and West Indian Christians on the Gold Coast
  • 4.2.2 Cooperation and Conflict in German Cameroon
  • 4.2.3 Economics, Linguistics and Education
  • 4.3 Mission Medicine and Health in the Colonies
  • 4.3.1 The Basel Medical Mission in West Africa
  • 4.3.2 Growing Interest in "Indigenous Hygiene"
  • References
  • Part II Negotiations of Hygiene "on the Margins" 1885-1914
  • 5 Locating Filth: Sin, Syphilis and the Path to Purity
  • 5.1 On a Hygiene Mission in West Africa
  • 5.2 The Insistence on Syphilis
  • 5.3 Bodily Knowledge, Individualism and Spiritual Rebirth
  • References
  • 6 Creating Pure Spaces: Edifices, Domesticity and the Temperance Movement
  • 6.1 Architectural Means
  • 6.2 Domestic Safe Havens
  • 6.3 Combatting Spirits
  • References
  • 7 Subverting Purity: Magic, Medical Pluralism and Tenacious Syncretism
  • 7.1 Of Healers and Doctors
  • 7.2 The Mission Doctors as Purity Hazards
  • 7.3 Tenacious Syncretism
  • References
  • Part III Reverberations of Hygiene 1885-1914
  • 8 Shaping Colonial Science: Missionary Challenges, Racial Segregation and the Locality of Science
  • 8.1 Trials from the Periphery
  • 8.2 The Question of Segregation
  • 8.3 The Locality of Science
  • References
  • 9 Soothing Weak Nerves: Tropical Anxieties, Missionary Guidance and Moral Hygiene
  • 9.1 Resurging Climatic Fears
  • 9.2 Missionary Advice on Moral Hygiene
  • 9.3 Weak Nerves and Missionary Resilience
  • 9.4 Boundaries of Colonial Rule
  • References
  • 10 Materialising Hygiene: Remedies, Commodities and Images
  • 10.1 Materia Medica
  • 10.2 The Commodification of Hygiene
  • 10.3 Beyond the Colonial Gaze
  • References
  • 11 Conclusion.
  • 11.1 Metropolitan Reflections
  • 11.2 Lines of Hygiene
  • 11.3 Shifts of Meanings
  • References
  • Appendix
  • Short Biographies
  • Alfred Eckhardt (BV 1139)
  • Rudolf Fisch (BV 985)
  • Arthur Häberlin (BV 1674)
  • Friedrich Hey (BV 1261)
  • Karl Huppenbauer (BV 2090)
  • Ernst Mähly
  • Theodor Müller (BV 1808b)
  • Hermann Vortisch (BV 1537)
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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