Abstract
IN this, the eighth of the series of Heath Clark Lectures of the University of London, “the educational, cultural and humanistic aspects of the History, Development and Progress of Preventive Medicine and Tropical Hygiene” have been construed in the broadest sense. They deal with the cultural changes and adjustments which are and have been taking place in West Africa as a result of the impact of European civilization. Dr. Meek opens the course with two lectures in which he draws upon his experience as an administrator, mainly acquired, as he points out, in Nigeria, to give in broad outline a summary of West African racial and cultural conditions and to indicate some of the principal social and economic factors affected by or affecting the course of contact development.
Europe and West Africa
Some Problems and Adjustments. By Dr. C. K. Meek, W. M. Macmillan and E. R. J. Hussey. (University of London: Heath Clark Lectures, 1939, delivered at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.) Pp. v + 144. (London, New York and Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1940.) 10s. net.
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[Short Reviews]. Nature 145, 655–656 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145655b0
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