Markku Hokkanen is Senior Lecturer in the Department of History, University of Oulu, Finland. His previous publications include the monograph Medicine, Mobility and the Empire: Nyasaland Networks, 1859-1960 (2017) and the co-edited collection Encountering Crises of the Mind: Madness, Culture and Society, 1200s-1900s (2018). Kalle Kananoja is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He has published articles on precolonial Atlantic African and colonial Brazilian history.

• 1. Introduction - Markku Hokkanen and Kalle Kananoja.- 2. Traditional Arctic Healing and Medicines of Modernisation in Finnish and Swedish Lapland - Ritva Kylli.- 3. Reports on Encounters of Medical Cultures: Two Physicians in Sweden’s Medical and Colonial Connections in the Late Eighteenth Century - Saara-Maija Kontturi.- 4. Tibetan Medicine and Buddhism in the Soviet Union: Research, Repression, and Revival, 1922–1991 - Ivan Sablin.- 5. Contestation, Redefinition and Healers’ Tactics in Colonial Southern Africa - Markku Hokkanen.- 6. Complicating Hybrid Medical Practices in the Tropics: Examining the Case of São Tomé and Príncipe, 1850-1926 - Rafaela Jobbitt.- 7. Doctors, Healers and Charlatans in Brazil: A Short History of Ideas, c. 1650–1950 - Kalle Kananoja.- 8. Risking Obeah: A Spiritual Infrastructure in the Danish West Indies, c. 1800–1848 - Gunvor Simonsen.- 9. Toward a Typology of Nineteenth-Century Lakota Magico-Medico-Ritual Specialists - David C. Posthumus.