Download PDF by Adell Patton Jr.: Physicians, colonial racism, and diaspora in West Africa

By Adell Patton Jr.

ISBN-10: 0813014328

ISBN-13: 9780813014326

"An vital [book] on a very important subject. . . . As educative because it is therapeutic. . . . does justice to the masses of African and diaspora physicians who bore the white man's burden."--A. G. Adebayo, Kennesaw country College

"A rigorously researched learn which illuminates an important issues within the heritage of colonial Africa, the African diaspora, and the historical past of medication, this crucial publication will curiosity students from many fields."--K. David Patterson, college of North Carolina, Charlotte

This heritage of West African drugs, obvious in the course of the biographies of African practitioners, files the struggles of the clinical occupation in Africa to accomplish autonomy and self-definition.

 The perform of African medication is ancient--the resource, in truth, of loads of Western clinical wisdom from the center a while onward. till the shut of the nineteenth century, African and West Indian physicians have been in a position to paintings freely to guard the healthiness of Africans and Europeans alike in West Africa.

 In 1901, in spite of the fact that, whilst colonialism--and pseudoscientific racism--was in complete strength, British administrative motion led to an period of regulations and segregation, a time of "closed shop," as British middle-class coverage makers defined it within the Fifties. Even African physicians educated within the usa and the previous Soviet Union and jap bloc international locations have been unwelcome of their international locations of foundation upon their go back home.

 This booklet discusses the function of African medical professionals in colonial country and society, the emergence of Africa's smooth clinical provider, and the contribution of African physicians to an realizing of African ailments and their therapy. It additionally offers with conventional African medication, starting in Egypt 3,000 years in the past. Historians and social scientists focusing on West African background, and African historians in general--especially these drawn to medicine--will locate the publication essential.

Adell Patton, Jr., is affiliate professor of background on the college of Missouri, St. Louis. An Africanist born in Arkansas, he's the writer of publication chapters and of articles within the foreign magazine of African old reports, the magazine of Negro heritage, Arkansas old Quarterly, and different journals.

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196816110. Ada Hebron Awooner-Renner, Ghana, Gold Coast, c. 192717711. Edna Elliot Horton, Angola, c. 195620012. Dr. Walter Awooner-Renner, Sierra Leone, c. 198020913. Dr. Alfred E. Olu-Williams, Sierra Leone, c. 1980s232 Page x 14. Dr. Ivan Johnson-Taylor, Sierra Leone, c. 1970s23415. Dr. Emmanuel Evans-Anfom, Ghana (Kumasi), c. 1970s241Maps1. Contemporary West Africa122. Western European medical centers, nineteenth and twentieth centuries273. Sierra Leone expatriate communities in West Africa in the nineteenth - century1004.

The Easmons, however, were always downgraded, as were most Africans when the time came for promotions and various other forms of professional advancement. As a result, many doctors sought employment in the Colonial Medical Service for one or two years, then went into private practice, and joined the colonial Legislative Council at the turn of the twentieth century, there debating mostly against the government. This behavior of the doctors occurred throughout West Africa. In order to understand how this pattern unfolded, we must ascertain why African doctors had to confront imperial authority in the struggle for medical professionalism.

Of the Journal of Negro History, for the article on Mayfield Boyle. I am exceedingly grateful to these editors. The manuscript focus benefited from the help of a number of persons. Since 1979 Calvin Sinnette, MD (Howard University School of Medicine), has contributed immensely to the study's classification of medical training and to ongoing discussions with regard to the design of the study. Professor Arthur Burt (Department of History, Howard University) read the entire manuscript and made numerous thematic and conceptual suggestions on how the imperial system worked in England, Africa, and the West Indies.

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