1. Introduction: looking beyond the state - Anna Greenwood
2. Crossing the divide: medical missionaries and government service in Uganda, 1897-1940 - Yolana Pringle
3. The government medical service and British missions in colonial Malawi, c.1891-1940: crucial collaboration, hidden conflicts - Markku Hokkanen
4. The maintenance of hegemony: the short history of Indian doctors in the Colonial Medical Service, British East Africa - Anna Greenwood and Harshad Topiwala
5. The Colonial Medical Service and the struggle for control of the Zanzibar Maternity Association, 1918-47 - Anna Greenwood
6. Elder Dempster and the transport of lunatics in British West Africa - Matthew M. Heaton
7. Social disease and social science: the intellectual influence of non-medical research on policy and practice in the Colonial Medical Service in Tanganyika and Uganda - Shane Doyle
8. Cooperation and competition: missions, the colonial state and constructing a health system in colonial Tanganyika - Michael Jennings
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