Dis-ease in the Colonial State
Subtitle: Medicine, Society, and Social Change Among the AbaNyole of Western Kenya
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: March 30, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780313320033
Subjects: Biomedical engineering; Colonization & independence; Indigenous peoples; Medical anthropology; Social & cultural anthropology; History; Medical / Nursing; History: World; Medical; Africa - General; General; Public Health; History / Africa; Bunyore; Health and hygiene; Health aspects; Imperialism; Kenya; Medicine; Nyore (Kenyan people)
First sentence: By any standards, whether in the public domain or in the marketplace of ideas, Africa, perhaps more than any other part of the so-called developing world, has always been, medically, a landscape of fear.