Mary P. Sutphen works as a consultant and is currently completing a book entitled Imperial Hygiene: Medicine and Public Health in the British Empire, 1880-1931, an analysis of the history of laboratory medicine in the British Empire.Bridie Andrews is an Assistant Professor at Harvard University. Her publications include The Making of Modern Chinese Medicine and an edited volume with Andrew Cunningham entitled Western Medicine as Contested Knowledge.

'This short edited collection of six papers represents an important step forward in the medical history of colonialism.' - Medical History, January 2005, 49(1)'This book ... makes an important contribution to a growing awareness of the potential for fruitful interdisciplinarity between medical history and cultural studies.' - Medical History, January 2005, 49(1)

• 1. Bridie Andrews and Mary P. Sutphen Introduction2. Maneesha Lal 'The Ignorance of Women is the House of Illness': Gender, Nationalism and Health Reform in Colonial North India3. David Gordon A Sword of Empire? Medicine and Colonialism at Kingwilliamstown, Xhosaland, 1856-18914. Hilary Marland Midwives, Missions and Reform: Colonizing Dutch Childbirth Services at Home and Abroad c.19005. Philippa Mein Smith New Zealand Milk for 'Building Britons'6. Suzanne Parry Tropical Medicine and Colonial Identity in Northern Australia7. Roy MacLeod Colonial Doctors and National Myths: On Telling Lives in Australian Medical Biography