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Biomedicine as a contested site : some revelations in imperial contexts

Title
  1. Biomedicine as a contested site : some revelations in imperial contexts / edited by Poonam Bala.
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  1. Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, ©2009.

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Additional authors
  1. Bala, Poonam, 1958-
Description
  1. ix, 197 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Subject
  1. 1800-1999
  2. Geschichte 1838-1950
  3. Imperialism > Health aspects > History
  4. Colonization > Health aspects > History
  5. Medicine > History > 19th century
  6. Medicine > History > 20th century
  7. Medical policy > History
  8. Health Policy > history
  9. Colonialism > history
  10. Delivery of Health Care > history
  11. History, 19th Century
  12. History, 20th Century
  13. Colonization > Health aspects
  14. Imperialism > Health aspects
  15. Medical policy
  16. Medicine
  17. Kolonie
  18. Imperialismus
  19. Medizin
  20. Kolonialismus
  21. Schulmedizin
  22. Volksmedizin
  23. Akkulturation
Genre/Form
  1. History.
Contents
  1. 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.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.