Crossing colonial historiographies
Subtitle: histories of colonial and indigenous medicines in transnational perspective
By: edited by Anne Digby, Waltraud Ernst, and Projit B. Muhkarji
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9781443821544
Subjects: Historiography; Colonialism; Traditional medicine; Delivery of Health Care; Medical care; Medicine; Colonies; History; Traditional Medicine
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Crossing Historiographies, Connecting Histories and Their Historians / Anne Digby, Waltraud Ernst and Projit B. Muhkarji.; title: Interweaving Substance Trajectories: Tiryaq, Circulation and Therapeutic Transformation in the Nineteenth Century / Guy Attewell.; title: Winter Worm, Summer Grass: Cordyceps, Colonial Chinese Medicine, and the Formation of Historical Objects / Carla Nappi.; title: Researching Amok in Malaysia / Thomas Williamson.; title: Russian Imperial Medicine: The Case of the Kazakh Steppe / Anna Afanasyeva.; title: Multiple Colonizations: State Formation, Public Health and the Yucatec Maya, 1891-1960 / David Sowell.; title: Medical Pluralism as a Historical Phenomenon: A Regional and Multi-Level Approach to Health Care in German, British and Independent East Africa / Walter Bruchhausen.; title: Crossing Colonial and Medical Boundaries: Plural Medicine on Java, 1850-1910 / Liesbeth Hesselink.; title: Towards a Cultural History of Medicine(s) in Colonial Central Africa / Markku Hokkanen.; title: Crossing Colonies and Empires: The Health Services of the Diamond Company of Angola / Jorge Varanda.; title: Medicine, Colonial Order and Local Action in Goa / Cristiana Bastos.; title: Loosening the Bonds of Historical Prejudice: Traditional Practitioners as Agents of Reconciliation and Change in Contemporary South Africa / Jo Wreford.