Native Medical Practitioners, Temporality, And Nascent Biomedical Citizenship In The New Hebrides

Native Medical Practitioners, Temporality, And Nascent Biomedical Citizenship In The New Hebrides Alexandra Widmer, 2010 While governing the New Hebrides from 1906 to1980, a British-French Condominium hired Pacific Islanders who had been trained in Fiji as Native Medical Practitioners (NMPs), to deliver primary health care and to offer public health education to the declining indigenous population. The NMPs' medical work was also expected to expand colonial governance in a culturally...

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