Article ID: CBB001210696

Colonial Medical Encounters in the Nineteenth Century: The French Campaigns in Egypt, Saint Domingue and Algeria (2012)

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This article will address the shortcomings of western medicine when faced with diseases of warm or `tropical' countries broadly conceived, the influence of non-European medicine on French medicine and the borrowing from non-European remedies and drugs by French practitioners in the nineteenth century. It will focus on three specific colonial campaigns (Egypt from 1798 to 1801, Saint Domingue from 1802 to 1803, Algeria from 1830 to the 1860s) which illustrate particularly well the evolution of `medical encounters' between French and non-European medicine in the nineteenth century. French medical encounters then went into three stages: exploration (in Egypt), appropriation (in Saint Domingue) and finally (in Algeria), assimilation and exploitation.

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Authors & Contributors
Weaver, Karol Kimberlee
Greenfield, Jerome
Dodman, Thomas W.
Stuchtey, Benedikt
Reyes, Raquel A. G.
Osborne, Michael A.
Concepts
Colonialism
Medicine
France, colonies
Imperialism
Disease and diseases
Cross-national interaction
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
18th century
20th century, early
Places
France
Algeria
Egypt
Japan
Germany
Vietnam
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