While literature on medicine and colonialism has increased rapidly in the past nearly two decades, this volume presents yet another way of looking at ideas of medicine, health, and disease. It portrays the role played by power in various ways in which biomedicine became a site of contested ventures-a site which saw an interplay of medicine, ruling ideologies, and resistance by indigenous populations. Ideas of disease and health range from control of infectious diseases and epidemics, medications and indigenous therapeutics, clinical medicine and surgery, to reproductive health, with the added dimension of medical pluralism and elites as enabling these interactions and processes.
This book will be of interest to undergraduate and graduate students of history, sociology, anthropology, medicine, and public health. With essays on different regions around the world, it will serve as a guide to scholars and students in colonial studies, history of medicine, and world history.
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Table of contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1: Colonizing Mother Egypt, Domesticating Egyptian Mothers
- 2: “Defying” Medical Autonomy: indigenous Elites and Medicine in Colonial india
- 3: Medical knowledge and professional power: from the luso-Brazilian Context to imperial Brazil
- 4: The invincible generals: yellow fever and the fight for Empire in Cuba, 1868-1898
- 5: The White Man in the Bedroom: Contraception and resistance on Commercial farms in Colonial rhodesia
- 6: Translations and transformations: toward Creating New Men in Early twentieth-century China
- 7: Rejected or Elected? processes of therapeutic Selection and Colonial Medicines in french Vietnam, 1905-1939
- 8: Articulating Medical ideas: Medicine and Medical Education in New Spain
- 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
- 10: Submitting to Surgery in the 1890s: four Vignettes
- Index
- About the Contributors
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