Lynette Jackson’s book is an excellent addition to the growing number of publications on the history of psychiatry in colonial Africa. Other books have dealt with the contribution of colonial psychiatrists to psychiatric theories (McCulloch, 1995), the history of asylums in south-west Nigeria (Sadowsky, 1999) and how race and culture acted as markers of difference in colonial asylums (Vaughn, 1...

The history of smallpox in Africa during colonial rule is a relatively neglected subject. This is not because of ignorance or obscurity but in some ways just the opposite: it is thought that there is little more to be learned about it. To be sure, vaccination campaigns during colonial rule were one of the earliest and most extensive public health programmes that Europeans bragged about as evide...

Lyons persuades us that sleeping sickness was indeed the disease of colonialism. Although endemic in small, isolated foci in the early colonial period, it increased in incidence around the turn of the century, becoming epidemic in some regions over the next decades. As in other parts of Africa, the upheavals and social disruptions accompanying colonial conquest produced ecological crises which ...

During 35 months of selective in vitro cultivation, Neisseria gonorrhoeae cells retained their virulence for humans and were shown to be closely related to a particular colonial morphology. Saline-autoagglutinability was the only other characteristic distinguishing virulent from avirulent cells. Human responses to challenge with cells of the different colonial types were studied for their relat...

Staphylococcus lugdunensis is being increasingly reported as a pathogen with an outcome resembling that of S. aureus rather than coagulase-negative staphylococci. Recent local isolates exhibited colonial variation that delayed identification and interpretation of clinical significance. Until now previous descriptions have not emphasized colonial variation as an important identifying characteris...

Dialyzed brain heart infusion-skim milk agar medium facilitated the recovery of colonial dissociants of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Differences in colonial morphology as well as in proteolytic activity were readily visualized, thus permitting facile isolation of segregating colony types for further biochemical, serological, and susceptibility studies.

The paper attempts to understand ways in which gender and racially defined communal ideologies worked simultaneously to produce Muslim women in colonial Bengal as invisible within nationalist historiography. It argues that the negative representations of Muslim women underpinned the construction of other identity categories in colonial Bengal, and highlights the participation of Hindu/Brahmo wo...

International discourses on environment and development help to shape global shared understandings of environmental issues. This paper describes the environment and development history of Guyana and Jamaica through pre-colonial, colonial, independence and market liberalisation stages. Two opposing discourses are used to frame this history: a dominant global

International discourses on environment and development help to shape global shared understandings of environmental issues. This paper describes the environment and development history of Guyana and Jamaica through pre-colonial, colonial, independence and market liberalisation stages. Two opposing discourses are used to frame this history: a dominant global