TY - BOOK ID - 85471420 TI - Health, state, and society in Kenya PY - 2001 SN - 128138285X 9786611382858 1580466052 1580460992 PB - Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, DB - UniCat KW - Public health KW - Social medicine KW - Medical care KW - Imperialism KW - Colonialism KW - Empires KW - Expansion (United States politics) KW - Neocolonialism KW - Political science KW - Anti-imperialist movements KW - Caesarism KW - Chauvinism and jingoism KW - Militarism KW - Delivery of health care KW - Delivery of medical care KW - Health care KW - Health care delivery KW - Health services KW - Healthcare KW - Medical and health care industry KW - Medical services KW - Personal health services KW - Medical sociology KW - Medicine KW - Medicine, Social KW - Public welfare KW - Sociology KW - Medical ethics KW - Medical sociologists KW - Community health KW - Hygiene, Public KW - Hygiene, Social KW - Public health services KW - Public hygiene KW - Social hygiene KW - Health KW - Human services KW - Biosecurity KW - Health literacy KW - Medicine, Preventive KW - National health services KW - Sanitation KW - History. KW - Health aspects KW - Social aspects KW - Öffentliches Gesundheitswesen KW - Sozialmedizin KW - Medizinische Versorgung KW - Geschichte KW - Social medicine. KW - Public health. KW - Medical care. KW - public health. KW - folk medicine. KW - medical history. KW - health policy. KW - colonialism. KW - United Kingdom. KW - Kenya. KW - Social Medicine KW - Medicine, Traditional KW - Disease Outbreaks KW - Delivery of Health Care KW - Public Health KW - Disease outbreaks KW - Diseases KW - Outbreaks of disease KW - Pestilences KW - Communicable diseases KW - Health care policy KW - Health policy KW - Medicine and state KW - Policy, Medical KW - Public health policy KW - State and medicine KW - Science and state KW - Social policy KW - Ethnic medicine KW - Ethnomedicine KW - Folk medicine KW - Home cures KW - Home medicine KW - Home remedies KW - Indigenous medicine KW - Medical folklore KW - Medicine, Primitive KW - Primitive medicine KW - Surgery, Primitive KW - Alternative medicine KW - Folklore KW - Medical anthropology KW - Ethnopharmacology KW - Health aspects. KW - history. KW - Outbreaks KW - Government policy KW - Kenia. KW - Kenia KW - Kenya KW - East Africa Protectorate KW - Cenia KW - Chenia KW - Colony and Protectorate of Kenya KW - GOK KW - Government of Kenya KW - Jamhuri ya Kenya KW - Kenii︠a︡ KW - Kenniya KW - Kenya Colony and Protectorate KW - Ḳenyah KW - Kīniyā KW - Kīnyā KW - Quênia KW - Republic of Kenya KW - Кения KW - קניה KW - كينيا KW - ケニア KW - 肯尼亚 KW - History UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85471420 AB - This book examines the conflicts brought on by the introduction, management and institutionalization of Western biomedicine into Kenya. From the dawn of the colonial age, there were conflicts over the issues and meanings of sickness, health and therapy. Conversations often broke down, especially during the first two decades of the twentieth century, because of the natural and strong desire on the part of local populations, the state and biomedical practitioners to protect their respective hallowed traditions, approaches and identities.<BR> However, the persistence of epidemics, spiraling mortality rates, the interdependent nature of the colonial economy, and the establishment and recommendations of Commissions of Inquiry turned the tensions of race and conflict into dialogues about accommodation and compromise. The focus on a common good, rather than upon partisan satisfaction, became a dominant force. Western biomedicine and African traditional therapies each contributed to the growth and development of colonial health care in Kenya.<BR><BR> George Ndege is Professor of History at St. Louis University. ER -