Medical Missionaries and Colonial Knowledge in West Africa and Europe, 1885-1914

Linda Maria Ratschiller Nasim is a Postdoctoral Researcher and teaching Fellow at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. Previously, she studied History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge, in the UK, and Contemporary History at the University of Fribourg.

• 1. ​Introduction.- Part I. Spaces of Knowledge and Meanings of Hygiene in the Nineteenth Century.- 2. The Religious Spaces of Knowledge: The Basel Mission, Worldwide Webs and Pietist Purity.- 3. The Scientific Space of Knowledge: Medical Missionaries, Tropical Medicine and the Age of Hygiene.- 4. The Colonial Space of Knowledge: The Medical Mission in West Africa, Imperial Entanglements and Colonial Cleanliness.- Part II. Negotiating Hygiene 'on the Margins' 1885–1914.- 5. Locating Filth: Sin, Syphilis and the Question of Segregation.- 6. Creating Pure Spaces: Edifices, Domesticity and the Temperance Movement.- 7. Subverting Purity: Magic, Medical Pluralism and Tenacious Syncretism.- Part III. Reverberations of Hygiene 1885–1914.- 8. Purifying Science: Missionary Challenges, Scientific Controversies and the Locality of Science.- 9. Soothing Weak Nerves: Tropical Anxieties, Missionary Guidance and Moral Hygiene.- 10. Materialising Hygiene: Materia Medica, Commodities and Sanitary Practices.- Part IV. Conclusion.- 11. Conclusion.