Healing the African Body: British Medicine in West Africa, 1800-1860

Explores the troubled intertwining of religion, medicine, empire, and race relations in the early nineteenth century. John Rankin analyses the British use of medicine in West Africa as a tool to usher in a "softer" form of imperialism, considers how British colonial officials, missionaries, and doctors regarded Africans, and explores the impact of race classification on colonial constructs.