Biomedicine as a contested site
Subtitle: some revelations in imperical contexts
By: edited by Poonam Bala.
Contributors: Bala, Poonam, 1958-
Edition: 1st pbk. ed.
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
ISBN-13: 9780739124604; 9780739124611
Subjects: Imperialism -- Health aspects -- History; Colonization -- Health aspects -- History; Medicine -- History -- 19th century; Medicine -- History -- 20th century; Medical policy -- History; Health Policy -- history; Colonialism -- history; Delivery of Health Care -- history; History, 19th Century; History, 20th Century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Colonizing mother Egypt : domesticating Egyptian mothers / Hibba Abugideri; title: "Defying' medical autonomy : indigenous elites and medicine in colonial India / Poonam Bala; title: Medical knowledge and professional power : from the Luso-Brazilian context to imperial Brazil / Flavio Coelho Edler; title: The invincible generals : disease and the fight for empire in Cuba, 1868 to 1898 / Mariola Espinosa; title: The White man in the bedroom : contraception and resistance on commercial farms in colonial Rhodesia / Amy Kaler; title: Translations and transformations : towards creating new men in early twentieth-century China / Angelika C. Messner; title: Rejected or elected? : processes of therapeutic selection and colonial medicines in French Vietnam, 1905-39 / Laurence Monnais; title: Articulating medical ideas : medicine and medical education in New Spain / Martha Eugenia Rodriguez; title: Disease, doctors and De Beers capitalists : smallpox and scandal in colonial South Africa during the mineral revolution and British imperialism, c. 1882-1883 / Russell Stafford Viljoen; title: Submitting to surgery in the 1890s : four vignettes / Sally Wilde.