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Week 7

Required Reading (on Talis)

Adam Mohr Missionary Medicine and Akan Therapeutics: Illness, Health and Healing in Southern Ghana's Basel Mission, 1828-1918 Journal of Religion in Africa

Megan Vaughan, Curing Their Ills. Read Chapter 3. The Great Dispensary in the Sky: Missionary Medicine Ebook

Carol Summers. Intimate Colonialism: The Imperial Production of Reproduction in Uganda, 1907-1925, Signs

Primary source; Livingstone and African medicine man (one page)

Further Readings (on Talis)

Seminar Questions

1. To what extent can colonial medicine be considered an instrument of imperialism?

2. What was the impact of colonisation on Indigenous medical practices?