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Agnes Arnold-Forster

Agnes Arnold-Forster

Agnes Arnold-Forster is a historian of health care, medicine, work and emotions. She is the author of “The Cancer Problem: Malignancy in Nineteenth-Century Britain” and works at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

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How Prejudices Warped Health Care in the Colonies

How Prejudices Warped Health Care in the Colonies

Colonized people were research subjects as much as they were patients, and the British Empire did not just export customs, political systems and language but imposed a medical structure that suppressed local health knowledge and practices.

Agnes Arnold-Forster