Indian Private Doctors in Kenya
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23453448 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anna Greenwood (0000-0003-0605-431X), Harshad Topiwala |
| Year | 2015 |
| Pages | 126-151 |
| Publication date | 2015-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Indian Doctors in Kenya, 1895-1940 (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1057/9781137440532_7 |
| OpenAlex | W2483117701 |
| ISBN | 9781137440532 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
Very little has been written about the Indian general practitioners who were part of the medical world of Kenya and yet they were an absolutely vital part of the colonial (and for that matter, post-colonial) landscape of the country. 2 Admittedly, in the early years of British rule the numbers who made up this cohort were small—just as they were for privately practising European doctors in the colony—but after 1920 Indians became a relatively organized and well-established part of the medical landscape. Furthermore, unlike most of the European private doctors that worked in colonial Kenya, Indian doctors commonly planted permanent roots in the country, remaining there with their families long after the transition to national rule. A large number of the doctors named in this chapter became the forefathers of a medical community of professional Indians, some of whose descendants still live in Kenya today. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
Colonial rule · Colonialism · Genealogy · Geography · Political science · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Law · Medicine
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |