Bell Heather: Frontiers of Medicine in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, 1899-1940

Much work on the history of colonial medicine is concerned with demonstrating that medicine was an arm of colonial power and of capitalism. This text challenges this interpretation through investigation of the complicated relationship between medicine, politics and capital in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan.Heather Bell's stimulating study of the introduction of colonial medicine into the Sudan in the early decades of the twentieth century makes a significant contribution to Sudanese studies, to colonial studies and to the history of medicine. As much about politics as about science, it adds to our understanding of differing colonial practices throughout the British Empire.