Medical Auxiliaries and the Negotiation of Public Health in Colonial North-Western Tanzania
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8977491 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mari Webel (0000-0001-6688-1355, Emory University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 393-416 |
| Publication date | 2013-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of African History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8537 • E-ISSN: 1469-5138 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0021853713000716 |
| OpenAlex | W1966993627 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 34 |
| References cited | 65 |
This article investigates the development and employment of African medical auxiliaries during the German campaign against sleeping sickness in colonial north-western Tanzania. A case study from the kingdom of Kiziba demonstrates how widespread illness and colonial public health interventions intersected with broader political and social change in the early twentieth century. Ziba auxiliaries known as gland-feelers operated within overlapping social and occupational contexts as colonial intermediaries, royal emissaries, and familiar local men. The changing fortunes of the campaign and its auxiliaries illustrate how new public health interventions became a means for the kingdom's population to engage with or avoid both royal and colonial power
Colonialism · Economic growth · Ethnology · Negotiation · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Psychological intervention · Public health · Tanzania · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · History of Medicine and Tropical Health · Law · Medicine · Nursing
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