A Town once blessed with Two ‘Witches’: A Study of Lady Jane McCotter and Gertrud Biersack in the Health Services if Abeokuta, 1928–2014

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dc.contributor.authorThompson, Olasupo
dc.date.accessioned2025-08-20T08:25:44Z
dc.date.available2025-08-20T08:25:44Z
dc.date.issued2025
dc.description.abstract-translatedWomen play germane roles in societal development. Though there is a growing scholarship in this regard, much is yet to be done. This article examines the role played by two foreign prominent women – Lady Jane McCotter and Dr Gertrud Biersack during the British colonial and post-colonial eras in Abeokuta respectively. The article relies on primary and secondary sources including video documentary, oral interviews, biography, public commentaries, newspapers, journals and books. The article argues that while these women were tagged as ‘witches’ during their various sojourns in Abeokuta; the town was blessed to have such ‘witches’. This was because these women did not only sacrifice most of their youthful days for the social development of the town particularly in the area of health and medicine, but they also deployed their personal resources including their wealth of experiences, finances and knowledge to improve the lives and wellbeing of the vulnerable groups including lepers, pregnant women, nursing mothers, the sick, babies and elderly people in Africa at large and Abeokuta in particular.en
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dc.identifier.issn1804-5480
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11025/62691
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherZápadočeská univerzita v Plznics
dc.rights© Západočeská univerzita v Plznics
dc.rights.accessopenAccessen
dc.subjectošetřovatelstvícs
dc.subjectkoloniální medicínacs
dc.subjectkojenecká/mateřská úmrtnostcs
dc.subjectnemocnice Sacred Heartcs
dc.subject.translatednursingen
dc.subject.translatedcolonial medicineen
dc.subject.translatedinfant/maternity mortalityen
dc.subject.translatedSacred Heart Hospitalen
dc.titleA Town once blessed with Two ‘Witches’: A Study of Lady Jane McCotter and Gertrud Biersack in the Health Services if Abeokuta, 1928–2014en
dc.typečlánekcs
dc.typearticleen
dc.type.statusPeer revieweden
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen
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