Biomedicine as a Contested Site (eBook, PDF)

Some Revelations in Imperial Contexts
Redaktion: Bala, Poonam

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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 dimension of medical pluralism and elites as enabling these interactions and processes. This book will be of interest to undergraduate and graduate students of history, sociology, anthropology, medicine, and public health. With essays on different regions around the world, it will serve as a guide to scholars and students in colonial studies, history of medicine, and world history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780739131381
• Artikelnr.: 38226776

Autorenporträt

Poonam Bala is the author of Imperialism and Medicine in Bengal: A Socio-Historical Perspective (Sage, 1992) and Medicine and Medical Policies in India: Social and Historical Perspectives (Lexington Books, 2007).

Inhaltsangabe

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