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COLONIAL MEDICINE (ROLE OF COLONIAL MEDICINE (Sense of shame - don't…

- - - - Non-compliance = fines/prison
      - Had to undergo full course + couldn't trade/marry/shag the whole time
        
        Treatment was mercury - unpopular
  - - - view facilitated coercive/compulsory examinations of the kind repealed in Britain
      - African women avoided programmes - had a bad image, run by men
- - - - enabled colonial governments to avoid addressing other issues e.g. poverty
- - - - thought syphilis v common
    - - Unusual due to efforts to train Africans
        
        unusual for caring abt their health
      - Babies die bc dunno how to care for them
    - - Disputes - says figures of infection are far too high
        
        Gives own figures
      - Disagree w blaming Christianity - civilisation is the problem, Christianity may be a cure as a restraining force
        
        Both agree that women r the problem
  - - - Over-exaggerates prevalence and threat from syphilis
      - Ganda intelligent - not too racist
      - The women's fault
      - Christianity set women free - now shagging about
        
        Uses Roscoe to support
- - - - Syphilis, Yaws and Gonorrhea
      - Also new diseases e.g. cholera, plague and measles - Sudanese soldiers and traders brought new strains - Doyle - conquest
      - Over-estimated by colonial govts due to fixation on morality
        
        Mass examinations + un-sterilized equipment = further spread
      - European outrage at inoculating infants w yaws or endemic syphilis = higher rates of ST syphilis
    - - those that didn't die were nicked by the Ganda or British
      - Doyle - couldnt maintain environmental control
    - - C T Wilson notes smallpox in Buganda
      - Speke notes presence of cholera in Buganda before his arrival
  - - - Though decline pre-dates conquest
      - Breakdown of social structures, less arable land
      - Maxim guns, rifles and cannon
    - - labour shortages due to war
      - crops burnt, diseased
      - enemy crops burnt
      - disrupted trade routes - backup
  - - - Food shortages after conquest
    - - Less fertility = more wives = more spread
      - Polygamy to improve - but potential spread of STDs and further infertility