Biomedicine As a Contested Site - Some Revelations in Imperial Contexts

Informationen zum Autor Edited by Poonam Bala Klappentext This volume presents biomedicine as a site of contestation and conflicts, of processes of adaptation, accommodation, and of resistance, in a unique relationship with colonization and social control in a medical encounter that signaled the limits of State control of indigenous populations. Zusammenfassung This volume presents biomedicine as a site of contestation and conflicts! of processes of adaptation! accommodation! and of resistance! in a unique relationship with colonization and social control in a medical encounter that signaled the limits of State control of indigenous populations. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Introduction: Contested Ventures: Biomedicine in Colonial Contexts Chapter 2 1. Colonizing Mother Egypt, Domesticating Egyptian Mothers Chapter 3 2. "Defying" Medical Autonomy: Indigenous Elites and Medicine in Colonial India Chapter 4 3. Medical Knowledge and Professional Power: From the Luso-Brazilian Context to Imperial Brazil Chapter 5 4. The Invincible Generals: Disease and the Fight for Empire in Cuba, 1868 to 1898 Chapter 6 5. The White Man in the Bedroom: Contraception and Resistance on Commercial Farms in Colonial Rhodesia Chapter 7 6. Translations and Transformations: Toward Creating New Men in Early Twentieth-Century China Chapter 8 7. Rejected or Elected? Processes of Therapeutic Selection and Colonial Medicines in French Vietnam, 1905-39 Chapter 9 8. Articulating Medical Ideas: Medicine and Medical Education in New Spain Chapter 10 9. Disease, Doctors, and De beers Capitalists: Smallpox and Scandal in Colonial South Africa during the Mineral Revolution and British Imperialism, c. 1882-1883 Chapter 11 10. Submitting to Surgery in the 1890s: Four Vignettes

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• Authors: Poonam Bala, Poonam (EDT) Bala
• Assisted by: Poonam Bala (Editor), Bala Poonam (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.09.2008
• EAN: 9780739124611
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-2461-1
• No. of pages: 197
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
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