Medicine and Colonial Identity (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Andrews, Bridie; Sutphen, Mary P.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Over the last century, identity as an avenue of inquiry has become both an academic growth industry and a problematic category of historical analysis. This volume shows how the study of medicine can provide new insights into colonial identity, and the possibility of accommodating multiple perspectives on identity within a single narrative. Contributors to this volume explore the perceived self-identity of colonizers; the adoption of western and traditional medicine as complementary aspects of a new, modern and nationalist identity; the creation of a modern identity for women in the colonies; and the expression of a healer's identity by physicians of traditional medicine.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134441181
• Artikelnr.: 41833756

Autorenporträt

Mary P. Sutphen works as a consultant and is currently completing a book entitled Imperial Hygiene: Medicine and Public Health in the British Empire, 1880-1931, an analysis of the history of laboratory medicine in the British Empire. Bridie Andrews is an Assistant Professor at Harvard University. Her publications include The Making of Modern Chinese Medicine and an edited volume with Andrew Cunningham entitled Western Medicine as Contested Knowledge.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Bridie Andrews and Mary P. Sutphen Introduction2. Maneesha Lal 'The
Ignorance of Women is the House of Illness': Gender, Nationalism and Health
Reform in Colonial North India3. David Gordon A Sword of Empire? Medicine
and Colonialism at Kingwilliamstown, Xhosaland, 1856-18914. Hilary Marland
Midwives, Missions and Reform: Colonizing Dutch Childbirth Services at Home
and Abroad c.19005. Philippa Mein Smith New Zealand Milk for 'Building
Britons'6. Suzanne Parry Tropical Medicine and Colonial Identity in
Northern Australia7. Roy MacLeod Colonial Doctors and National Myths: On
Telling Lives in Australian Medical Biography