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Africana Sources at the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 May 2014

Michael W. Tuck
Michael W. Tuck*
Affiliation:
Northeastern Illinois University, tuck/m-tuck@neiu.edu
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The holdings of the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine (hereafter the Wellcome) contain many items of interest for scholars of Africa. While the Wellcome is known as the premier library for the history of science and medicine, its resources can contribute to a variety of research projects, including topics in social, cultural, labor, and military history. What follows is a brief overview of some of the major holdings, a more detailed description of important sources from Uganda, and some ideas of how these can be used by Africanists.

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Research Article
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History in Africa , Volume 28 , 2001 , pp. 439 - 444
Copyright
Copyright © African Studies Association 2001

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References

1 Two good starting points for Albert Cook's life and the workings of Mengo Hospital are Foster, W.D., The Church Missionary Society and Modern Medicine in Uganda: The Life of Sir Albert Cook, K.C.M.G., 1870-1951 (Newhaven, 1978)Google Scholar, and Cook, Albert R., Uganda Memories (Kampala, 1945).Google Scholar

2 For example, see Tuck, Michael W., “Syphilis, Sexuality, and Social Control: A History of Venereal Disease in Colonial Uganda” (Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1997)Google Scholar; Foster, W.D., The Early History of Scientific Medicine in Uganda (Nairobi, 1970)Google Scholar; and several works by Cook, himself starting with “Notes on the Diseases Met With in Uganda, Central Africa,” Journal of Tropical Medicine 4 (1901), 175–78.Google Scholar

3 Cook, Albert R., A Medical Vocabulary and Phrase Book in Luganda (Kampala, 1921).Google Scholar Although published in 1921 the “medical interrogation” it contains was produced and used by 1903.

4 Hanawalt, Barbara A., The Ties That Bound: Peasant Families in Medieval England (New York, 1986).Google Scholar

5 On the use of patient records see Risse, Guenter B. and Warner, John Harley, “Reconstructing Clinical Activities: Patient Records in Medical History,” Social History of Medicine 5(1992), 183–205CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed; and Noll, Steven, “Patient Records as Historical Stories: The Case of Caswell Training School,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 68(1994), 411–28.Google ScholarPubMed