‘Mrs Glover attending to an ill African chief.’ · The Medicine Chest

Title

‘Mrs Glover attending to an ill African chief.’

Is Part Of

African Studies See all items with this value

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Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Research See all items with this value

Description

"The figure of ‘Mrs Glover’, kneeling and treating what appears to be a very ill man, exudes not only the authority of Western medicine within the local context but conveys her as the self-sacrificing and caring European ‘civilizer’ in service of expanding the empire, ‘the medicine chest conveniently by her side’ (Johnson 2008b: 259)" (Liebenberg 2021: 63 - 65).

Access Rights

Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Curriculum

Philosophia Botanica See all items with this value

url

https://wellcomecollection.org/works/ep6yj5em

Creator

Burroughs Wellcome & Co. See all items with this value

Date Created

1934

Source

Burroughs Wellcome & Co. 1934. The romance of exploration and emergency first aid from Stanley to Byrd. London: Burroughs Wellcome & Co.

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Resonances

colonialism See all items with this value

medicine chest See all items with this value

empire See all items with this value

care See all items with this value

disease See all items with this value

illness See all items with this value

treatment See all items with this value

religion See all items with this value

missionary See all items with this value

indigenous See all items with this value

chief See all items with this value

Type

Jpeg

Item sets

99_LBNNIN001

Philosophia Botanica

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