How Long to Read Medical Missionaries and Colonial Knowledge in West Africa and Europe, 1885-1914

How Long Does it Take to Read Medical Missionaries and Colonial Knowledge in West Africa and Europe, 1885-1914?

It takes the average reader 7 hours and 45 minutes to read Medical Missionaries and Colonial Knowledge in West Africa and Europe, 1885-1914 by Linda Maria Ratschiller Nasim

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Description

This open access book offers an entangled history of hygiene by showing how knowledge of purity, health and cleanliness was shaped by evangelical medical missionaries and their encounters with people in West Africa. By tracing the interactions and negotiations of six Basel Mission doctors, who practised on the Gold Coast and in Cameroon from 1885 to 1914, the author demonstrates how notions of religious purity, scientific health and colonial cleanliness came together in the making of hygiene during the age of High Imperialism. The heyday of evangelical medical missions abroad coincided with the emergence of tropical medicine as a scientific discipline during what became known as the Scramble for Africa. This book reveals that these projects were intertwined and that hygiene played an important role in all three of them. While most historians have examined modern hygiene as a European, bourgeois and scientific phenomenon, the author highlights both the colonial and the religious fabric of hygiene, which continues to shape our understanding of purity, health and cleanliness to this day.

How long is Medical Missionaries and Colonial Knowledge in West Africa and Europe, 1885-1914?

Medical Missionaries and Colonial Knowledge in West Africa and Europe, 1885-1914 by Linda Maria Ratschiller Nasim is 462 pages long, and a total of 116,424 words.

This makes it 156% the length of the average book. It also has 142% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Medical Missionaries and Colonial Knowledge in West Africa and Europe, 1885-1914 Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 10 hours and 36 minutes to read Medical Missionaries and Colonial Knowledge in West Africa and Europe, 1885-1914 aloud.

What Reading Level is Medical Missionaries and Colonial Knowledge in West Africa and Europe, 1885-1914?

Medical Missionaries and Colonial Knowledge in West Africa and Europe, 1885-1914 is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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