Thirteen-year old Robin is in the hospital after another beating from her mother. Yet she s happier than she s ever been because she s making friends with Declan and the other children on the ward, and because the kindly nurses are giving her the love she s always craved from her mother. Robin helps Declan too, when they sneak out of the hospital on a mysterious errand, and they meet Lee, another abused girl. Then one morning, Robin is stunned to find herself painfully alone again all her friends, and even the nurses, have disappeared and strangers are in their place. Now desolate and...

This pioneering book offers unique insights into the careers of Indian doctors in colonial Kenya. As such, it deepens and broadens recent historiography of the complex constitution of the British Empire. The British Empire, although ideologically racist, nevertheless relied upon staff of all nationalities and ethnicities. Ideas and practices were imported between various colonial dependencies as much as they evolved responsively to local conditions. The book highlights the complex ambiguities of Empire; advancing modern studies of the British Empire as a linked, multi-centred global...

The Colonial Medical Service was the personnel section of the Colonial Service, employing the doctors who tended to the health of both the colonial staff and the local populations of the British Empire. Although the Service represented the pinnacle of an elite government agency, its reach in practice stretched far beyond the state, with the members of the African service collaborating, formally and informally, with a range of other non-governmental groups. This collection of essays on the Colonial Medical Service of Africa illustrates the diversity and active collaborations to be found in the...