Curative Powers - Medicine and Empire in Stalin's Central Asia

Curative Powers combines post-colonial theory with ethnographic research to reconstruct how the Soviet government used medicine and public health policy to transform the society, politics, and culture of its outlying regions, specifically Kazakhstan.

Winner of the 2003 Heldt Prize from the Association for Women in Slavic Studies.

About the author

Paula A. Michaels, assistant professor of history at the University of Iowa, is a recipient of the Louis Dupree Prize for Central Asian Research.

Summary

Curative Powers combines post-colonial theory with ethnographic research to reconstruct how the Soviet government used medicine and public health policy to transform the society, politics, and culture of its outlying regions, specifically Kazakhstan. Winner of the 2003 Heldt Prize from the Association for Women in Slavic Studies.

Product details

• Authors: Paula Michaels, Paula A. Michaels
• Publisher: University Of Pittsburgh Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.04.2003
• EAN: 9780822961291
• ISBN: 978-0-8229-6129-1
• No. of pages: 264
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 233 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 381 g
• Series: Pitt Russian East European; Russian and East European Stud; Pitt Russian East European; Russian and East European Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General