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Heaton examines health and health care in Africa in the era of European colonial rule. Covering the health consequences of colonial occupation and colonial economies on African subjects, the effects of colonial administrative priorities and racism on health and health care, African responses to colonial health policies and medical practices, and the expansion of Western biomedical facilities in the post-Second World War era, the chapter treats issues of health and medicine not just in terms of the spread of germs and the provision of health care, but, just as importantly, in terms of the limitations of medical science and the broader social dynamics that affected how people (African and European) thought about the role of health and medicine in colonial Africa.
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Heaton, M.M. (2018). Health and Medicine in Colonial Society. In: Shanguhyia, M., Falola, T. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of African Colonial and Postcolonial History. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59426-6_11
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