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Biomedicine as a Contested Site: Some Revelations in Imperial Contexts

Biomedicine as a Contested Site: Some Revelations in Imperial Contexts

Bala, Poonam

Paperback

Medical ReferenceAnthropologyGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0739124617
ISBN13: 9780739124611
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Sep 1 2008
Pages: 196
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

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.

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