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Introduction: looking beyond the state (2015)
Book Chapter
Greenwood, A. (2015). Introduction: looking beyond the state. In A. Greenwood (Ed.), Beyond the State: The Colonial Medical Service in British Africa. Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526137074

This chapter auto-critiques the editors early work (Crozier, Practising Colonial Medicine, 2007) for studying the Colonial Medical Service as a distinct entity, founded and run on shared principles, staffed by Europeans and micro-managed from Whiteha... Read More about Introduction: looking beyond the state.

The Colonial Medical Service and the struggle for control of the Zanzibar Maternity Association, 1918–47 (2015)
Book Chapter
Greenwood, A. (2015). The Colonial Medical Service and the struggle for control of the Zanzibar Maternity Association, 1918–47. In A. Greenwood, & H. Topiwala (Eds.), Beyond the state: The Colonial Medical Service in British Africa (85-103). Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526137074.00009

The Zanzibar Maternity Association (ZMA) was a charitable organisation established in 1918 to help Zanzibari women during parturition. Majority funding came from the Arab and Indian communities who, correspondingly, had considerable say in the organi... Read More about The Colonial Medical Service and the struggle for control of the Zanzibar Maternity Association, 1918–47.

The maintenance of hegemony: The short history of Indian doctors in the Colonial Medical Service, British East Africa (2015)
Book Chapter
Greenwood, A., & Topiwala, H. (2015). The maintenance of hegemony: The short history of Indian doctors in the Colonial Medical Service, British East Africa. In A. Greenwood (Ed.), Beyond the state: The Colonial Medical Service in British Africa (64-84). Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526137074

Histories of the Colonial Medical Service have considered the European Medical Officers forming their elites and also the subsidiary auxiliary staff who provided supporting healthcare provision. No research has, however, taken account of the Indian ‘... Read More about The maintenance of hegemony: The short history of Indian doctors in the Colonial Medical Service, British East Africa.