Biomedicine as a contested site :: some revelations in imperial contexts /

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-...

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Weitere Verfasser: Bala, Poonam, 1958-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, ©2009.
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (ix, 197 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780739131381
0739131389
9780739124604
0739124609
9780739124611
0739124617

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