Language, Medical Auxiliaries, and the Re-interpretation of Missionary Medicine in Colonial Mwinilunga, Zambia, 1922–51Footnote1

1. I wish to thank Professor Megan CitationVaughan, Dr Giacomo Macola and participants at the African seminar held at Cambridge University on 21 November 2006 for commenting on earlier versions of this paper.

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