Markku Hokkanen is Lecturer in History at the University of Oulu

• Introduction: medicine, mobility and the empire1 Mobilities, medicine and health in the Malawi region: networks of empire, missions and labour, c.1859–c.19602 Laypeople, professionals and the ‘Livingstone tradition’: assessing European health, spaces and mobilities in South-Central Africa, c.1859–c.1940 3 Spiritual and secular medicine in Malawian–British Protestant mission networks, c.1859–c.19404 Knowledge, secrecy and contestation: early medical encounters, c.1859–c.19305 African medical middles and migrant doctors, c.1890–c.19606 Quinine, malarial fevers and mobility: a biography of a ‘European fetish’, c.1859–c.19407 Colonising African medicines? Central African medicines and poisons and knowledge-making in the empire, c1859–c.1940Epilogue: mobilities, networks and the making of colonial medical cultureIndex

‘Medicine, Mobility, and the Empire deftly combines perspectives from missionary medicine, colonial medicine, and indigenous healing practices. […] the book will be a useful resource for students and researchers interested in the interactions among indigenous, colonial, and missionary healing networks in South-Central Africa.’Julia R. Cummiskey, PhD, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Vol. 74, No. 2 (April 2019)‘An effective treatment of the issue of intellectual exchanges in the region that helps propel the book beyond just a history of colonial medicine and gives insight into the complex practice of medicine during this period.’Tiffany F. Jones, California State University, Social History of Medicine, Volume 32 Issue 1, February 2019