"I Was Doctor": White Settler Women's Amateur Medical Practice in East and South-Central African Communities, 1890-1939.

This article addresses the gap by exploring amateur medical treatment by white settler women in East and South-Central African communities between 1890 and 1939, primarily in highland areas of Kenya and Southern Rhodesia. It examines the types of conditions treated, what techniques and equipment were used for treatment, and where treatment was carried out. It also explores medical identity in settler women's memoirs. Last, it considers the degree of choice exercised by patients in these amateur medical encounters. Overall, this article situates white settlers' amateur treatment in African communities as an important strand of colonial health care and as an intimate contact zone between white settlers, colonial medicine, and local people. PMID: 30369498 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Medical History - Category: History of Medicine Authors: Tags: Bull Hist Med Source Type: research