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Colonial Lexicon
Religious Missions
Colonialism
Obstetric Labor
Protestant churches
Childbirth
Vocabulary
Culture
Ethnology
Missions
Feminism
Medical care
Religious aspects
Christianity
Social life and customs
History
A Colonial Lexicon is the first historical investigation of how childbirth became medicalized in Africa. Rejecting the “colonial encounter” paradigm pervasive in current studies, Nancy Rose Hunt elegantly weaves together stories about autopsies and bicycles, obstetric surgery and male initiation, to…
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