Brutal treatments
Medicine and colonial violence at the end of empire
By Russell T. Moul
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- Format: Hardcover
- Pages: 304
- Price: £90.00
- Published Date: May 2025
- Series: Social Histories of Medicine
Description
Brutal treatments explores the role medical doctors played in the colonial counterinsurgency campaigns in British Kenya (1952-1960) and French Algeria (1954-1962) in the final years of empire. It not only examines how these medical professionals became embroiled in the conflict, but also how they used their knowledge to further the interests of the state. The book makes a substantial and significant contribution to the history of medicine, the history of medical ethics, and the history of colonialism.
Contents
Introduction
1 First blood
2 Fragile hearts and vulnerable minds
3 Behind the barbed wire
4 First, do no harm?
5 Bodies without evidence
Concluding thoughts
Author
Russell T. Moul is an Honorary Academic at the University of Kent
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