<p>Product Description      This book is about the roots of medicine, medical research & education in the Sudan. It traces the origin of medical practices to the formative years of the era of the Fung Kingdom of Sennar (1504-1821), and follows its evolution through the years of the Turco-Egyptian rule (1821-1881); when modern medicine in its heyday was introduced to the Sudan. The reign of the Mahdi and his successor; Khalifa Abdullahi el-Taeishi witnessed a setback in this chapter, followed by an uprise when the troops (many of them were Sudanese), led by Lord Herbert Kitchener in his Nile Campaign paved the way for the establishment of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (1898-1956). It took six years for the first civil medical service to see the light of day when the Sudan Medical Department (SMD) was established. Before that members of the Royal Army Medical Corps and recruits of Syrian medical schools provided the medical services in the country. SMD (1904-1924) was succeeded by Sudan Medical Service (1924-1956) (SMS). The two eras benefitted from the benevolent enterprise of the Anglo-American philanthropist Henry Solomon Wellcome; whose only tropical medical research laboratory outside the British Isles based at the Nile at Khartoum provided the catalyst and the platform for ingenious work.      Review      A seminal research work in depth and breadth that encapsulates and documents the history of medicine in the Sudan that involves the early practitioners and pioneer researchers in the medical field. Dr. Elhad brilliantly traced not merely the history of western medicine in the Sudan in terms of policies, achievements and research findings, but equally the context of such history and the personal and professional life histories of those involved. Dr. Elhad s extensive research work provides us with a clear picture of the western and colonial perceptions on diseases and hygiene and how such motives have shaped their policies and later pursued by the post-colonial state. --Dr. Ali B. Dinar, Sudanic Studies Section, University of Pennsylvania, US --From the BlurbDr. Elhadd has seamlessly interwoven the evolution of medical practice in the Sudan into the overarching framework of the political, social, economic, ethnographic, cultural and religious aspects of Sudanese history, its geographical and climatic underpinnings, and relevant events in the wider world. Although clearly of interest to his co-nationals, both at home and in the diaspora, this volume will also provide fascinating insights to others on what it means to be Sudanese, and how distinct national characteristics were forged in out of almost unimaginably heterologous beginnings. However, the Sudanese mind experiences no such discordant cognitive dissonance; instead maturely recognizing that successive invasions and occupations by Arab tribes, Turco-Egyptian armies and Anglo-Egyptian expeditionary forces brought Islam, political unity, modern medicine and technology at the same time as inflicting slavery, oppression, extortion and rapine in almost equal measure. Out of such adversity arose a warm, generous, innovative, hospitable and industrious people; quick to find praiseworthy things in others and loathe to bear grudges. --Richard Quiton, Physician, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle --From the BlurbThis ambitious history ranges over a vast area of the Egyptian-Turko- African world. From the 1500s it gallops along at a head-spinning rate eventually settling on Sudan. Elhadd s research is impressive, (and this is just Volume 1). Initially medicine is a side-line as the early visitors to the area, those who left written accounts, are adventurers with only a smattering of medicine as a necessity. As the story closes in on the scramble for Africa, the Mahdiyya, Charles Gordon and the colonial period, we learn more of the diseases and illnesses encountered: smallpox, syphilis, Guinea worm, cholera, leprosy, kala-azar to name a few. We learn of efforts to stem the tide, first</p>

Colonialism and the Medical Experiences in the Sudan (1504-1956)

Tarik Elhadd

The Red Sea Press

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Colonialism and the Medical Experiences in the Sudan (1504-1956)