Empires of Hygiene

This special issue of "positions" investigates how medicine also acts as a sort of hygiene--a disciplinary agent against the unruly forces of nature and culture.

Summary

Investigates how medicine, the craft of healing, also acts as a sort of hygiene - a disciplinary agent against the unruly forces of nature and culture. This book examines diseases such as leprosy and STDs, which have biomedical identities in Western settings but in Asia emerge as inseparable from certain colonial regimes.

Product details

• Authors: Judith Farquhar, Marta E. Hanson, Marta Eileen Hanson
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.03.1999
• EAN: 9780822364665
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-6466-5
• No. of pages: 264
• Dimensions: 203 mm x 181 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 520 g
• Series: Positions: East Asia Cultures; Positions: East Asia Cultures
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries