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Title Biomedicine as a contested site : some revelations in imperial contexts / edited by Poonam Bala
Published Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 197 pages) : illustrations
Contents Colonizing mother Egypt, domesticating Egyptian mothers / Hibba Abugideri -- "Defying" medical autonomy : indigenous elites and medicine in colonial India / Poonam Bala -- Medical knowledge and professional power : from the Luso-Brazilian context to imperial Brazil / Flavio Coelho Edler -- The invincible generals : yellow fever and the fight for empire in Cuba, 1868-1898 / Mariola Espinosa -- The White man in the bedroom : contraception and resistance on commercial farms in colonial Rhodesia / Amy Kaler -- Translations and transformations : towards creating new men in early twentieth-century China / Angelika C. Messner -- Rejected or elected? : processes of therapeutic selection and colonial medicines in French Vietnam, 1905-1939 / Laurence Monnais -- Articulating medical ideas : medicine and medical education in New Spain / Martha Eugenia Rodriguez -- Disease, doctors and De Beers capitalists : smallpox and scandal in colonial Kimberley (South Africa) during the mineral revolution and British imperialism, c. 1882-1883 / Russell Stafford Viljoen -- Submitting to surgery in the 1890s : four vignettes / Sally Wilde
Summary While literature on medicine and colonialism has increased rapidly in the past nearly two decades, this volume presents yet another way of looking at ideas of medicine, health, and disease. It portrays the role played by power in various ways in which biomedicine became a site of contested ventures--a site which saw an interplay of medicine, ruling ideologies, and resistance by indigenous populations. Ideas of disease and health range from control of infectious diseases and epidemics, medications and indigenous therapeutics, clinical medicine and surgery, to reproductive health, with the added
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Imperialism -- Health aspects -- History
Colonization -- Health aspects -- History
Medicine -- History -- 19th century
Medicine -- History -- 20th century
Medical policy -- History
Health Policy -- history
Colonialism -- history
Delivery of Health Care -- history
History, 19th Century
History, 20th Century
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Biomedical.
MEDICAL -- Family & General Practice.
MEDICAL -- Allied Health Services -- Medical Technology.
MEDICAL -- Biotechnology.
MEDICAL -- Lasers in Medicine.
Colonization -- Health aspects
Imperialism -- Health aspects
Medical policy
Medicine
Kolonie
Imperialismus
Medizin
Kolonialismus
Schulmedizin
Volksmedizin
Akkulturation
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Bala, Poonam, 1958-
ISBN 9780739131381
0739131389
9780739124604
0739124609
9780739124611
0739124617