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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.

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Additional Authors

Bala, Poonam, 1958-

Description

ix, 197 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Colonizing mother Egypt, domesticating Egyptian mothers / Hibba Abugideri -- "Defying" medical autonomy : indigenous elites and medicine in colonial India / Poonam Bala -- Medical knowledge and professional power : from the Luso-Brazilian context to imperial Brazil / Flavio Coelho Edler -- The invincible generals : yellow fever and the fight for empire in Cuba, 1868-1898 / Mariola Espinosa -- The White man in the bedroom : contraception and resistance on commercial farms in colonial Rhodesia / Amy Kaler -- Translations and transformations : towards creating new men in early twentieth-century China / Angelika C. Messner -- Rejected or elected? : processes of therapeutic selection and colonial medicines in French Vietnam, 1905-1939 / Laurence Monnais -- Articulating medical ideas : medicine and medical education in New Spain / Martha Eugenia Rodriguez -- Disease, doctors and De Beers capitalists : smallpox and scandal in colonial Kimberley (South Africa) during the mineral revolution and British imperialism, c. 1882-1883 / Russell Stafford Viljoen -- Submitting to surgery in the 1890s : four vignettes / Sally Wilde.

ISBN

9780739124604
0739124609
9780739124611
0739124617

LCCN

2008024514
40015970630

OCLC

ocn230848084
230848084
SCSB-1492740

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library