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Biomedicine as a contested site : some revelations in imperial contexts
- Title
- Biomedicine as a contested site : some revelations in imperial contexts / edited by Poonam Bala.
- Publication
- Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, [2009], ©2009.
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- Additional Authors
- Bala, Poonam, 1958-
- Description
- ix, 197 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction. Contested "ventures" : explaining biomedicine in colonial contexts Poonam Bala / Amy Kaler -- 1. Colonizing Mother Egypt, domesticating Egyptian mothers / Hibba Abugideiri -- 2. "Defying" medical autonomy : indigenous elites and medicine in colonial India / Poonam Bala -- 3. Medical knowledge and professional power : from the Luso-Brazilian context to imperial Brazil / Flavio Coelho Edler -- 4. The invincible generals : yellow fever and the fight for empire in Cuba, 1868-1898 / Mariola Espinosa -- 5. The white man in the bedroom : contraception and resistance on commercial farms in colonial Rhodesia / Amy Kaler -- 6. Translations and TransFormations : toward creating new men in early twentieth-century China / Angelika C. Messner -- 7. Rejected or elected? : processes of therapeutic selection and colonial medicines in French Vietnam, 1905-1939 / Laurence Monnais -- 8. Articulating medical ideas : medicine and medical education in New Spain / Martha Eugenia Rodriguez -- 9. Disease, doctors and De beers capitalists : smallpox and scandal in colonial Kimberley (South Africa) during the mineral revolution and British imperialism, c. 1882-1883 / Russel Stafford Viljoen -- 10. Submitting to surgery in the 1890s : four vignettes / Sally Wilde.
- ISBN
- 9780739124604 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0739124609 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780739124611 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0739124617 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2008024514
- OCLC
- ocn230848084
- 230848084
- SCSB-5436726
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries