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Medicine in Africa: Empire

Explore the role of colonial government, missionaries, and local healers in providing medicine and treating venereal disease in Uganda during the colonial period.

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Medicine in Africa: Empire

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  1. Medicine in Africa: Empire

  2. Racial science Colonial government medicine Missionary medicine A Case Study: Venereal Disease in Uganda

  3. I. Racial Science

  4. I. Racial Science • Originally, relationships between Europeans and Africans were positive

  5. I. Racial Science • Originally, relationships between Europeans and Africans were positive • Slave trade and colonialism meant…

  6. I. Racial Science • Originally, relationships between Europeans and Africans were positive • Slave trade and colonialism meant… • Polygenism: multiple races created at the beginning

  7. I. Racial Science • Originally, relationships between Europeans and Africans were positive • Slave trade and colonialism meant… • Polygenism: multiple races created at the beginning • Monogenism: one race at the beginning

  8. Types of Mankind, Nott and Gliddon (1854)

  9. Who provided medicine in the colonial world?

  10. Who provided medicine in the colonial world? • Colonial Government

  11. Who provided medicine in the colonial world? • Colonial Government • Missionaries

  12. Who provided medicine in the colonial world? • Colonial Government • Missionaries • Local healers

  13. What kind of medicine did they provide? • Colonial Government • Missionaries • Local healers

  14. What kind of medicine did they provide? • Colonial Government • For government employees and labourers • Missionaries • Local healers

  15. What kind of medicine did they provide? • Colonial Government • For government employees and labourers • Medical campaigns • Missionaries • Local healers

  16. What kind of medicine did they provide? • Colonial Government • For government employees and labourers • Medical campaigns • Missionaries • General hospitals and dispensaries • Local healers

  17. What kind of medicine did they provide? • Colonial Government • For government employees and labourers • Medical campaigns • Missionaries • General hospitals and dispensaries • Maternity and child welfare • Local healers

  18. What kind of medicine did they provide? • Colonial Government • For government employees and labourers • Medical campaigns • Missionaries • General hospitals and dispensaries • Maternity and child welfare • Leprosy • Local healers

  19. Why did they provide medicine?

  20. Why did they provide medicine? • To support and justify colonialism

  21. Why did they provide medicine? • To support and justify colonialism • Economics

  22. Why did they provide medicine? • To support and justify colonialism • Economics • Evangelization

  23. Why did they provide medicine? • To support and justify colonialism • Economics • Evangelization • Humanitarianism

  24. Why did they provide medicine? • To support and justify colonialism • Economics • Evangelization • Humanitarianism • Vulnerability and suffering

  25. Why did they provide medicine? • To support and justify colonialism • Economics • Evangelization • Humanitarianism • Vulnerability and suffering • Social engineering

  26. What kind of medicine did they provide? • Colonial Government • For government employees and labourers • Medical campaigns • Missionaries • General hospitals and dispensaries • Maternity and child welfare • Leprosy • Local healers

  27. Trypanosomiasis Spread by Tsetse fly Habitat Brush and wooded environments, especially by water

  28. Symptoms 1st Stage Fever, headaches, joint pains, itching, swelling of lymph nodes 2nd Stage (Neurological) Sleep episodes, confusion, paralysis, psychotic reactions, aggressive behavior, apathy

  29. Diagnosis

  30. Control

  31. What kind of medicine did they provide? • Colonial Government • For government employees and labourers • Medical campaigns • Missionaries • General hospitals and dispensaries • Maternity and child welfare • Leprosy • Local healers

  32. Ugandan History Timeline

  33. Ugandan History Timeline White Fathers Arrive 1879 1877 CMS Arrives

  34. Ugandan History Timeline White Fathers Arrive 1879 1877 CMS Arrives British Protectorate Established 1894

  35. Ugandan History Timeline White Fathers Arrive First Hospital 1897 1879 1877 CMS Arrives British Protectorate Established 1894

  36. Ugandan History Timeline White Fathers Arrive First Hospital 1897 1879 1908 1877 CMS Arrives VD campaigns begin British Protectorate Established 1894

  37. Ugandan History Timeline White Fathers Arrive First Hospital 1897 1879 1908 1917 1877 CMS Arrives VD campaigns begin British Protectorate Established Medical Assistant School 1894

  38. Ugandan History Timeline 1918 Midwifery Training School White Fathers Arrive First Hospital 1897 1879 1908 1917 1877 CMS Arrives VD campaigns begin British Protectorate Established Medical Assistant School 1894

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