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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.
ISBN
9780739124604 (cloth : alk. paper)
0739124609 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780739124611 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0739124617 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, c2009.
Physical Description
ix, 197 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 24, 2008
Bibliography
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.
Subjects
Subjects (Medical)
History, 19th Century.
History, 20th Century.
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