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Imperial Medicine and Indigenous Societies
Language: en
Pages: 248
Authors: David Arnold
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1988 - Publisher: Manchester University Press

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In recent years it has become apparent that the interaction of imperialism with disease, medical research, and the administration of health policies is consider
Imperial medicine and indigenous societies
Language: en
Pages: 377
Authors: David Arnold
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-06-15 - Publisher: Manchester University Press

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In recent years it has become apparent that the interaction of imperialism with disease, medical research, and the administration of health policies is consider
Imperial Contagions
Language: en
Pages: 321
Authors: Robert Peckham
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-01-01 - Publisher: Hong Kong University Press

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Imperial Contagions argues that there was no straightforward shift from older, enclavist models of colonial medicine to a newer emphasis on prevention and treat
Plural Medicine, Tradition and Modernity, 1800-2000
Language: en
Pages: 268
Authors: Waltraud Ernst
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-11 - Publisher: Routledge

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This book brings together current critical research into medical pluralism during the last two centuries. It includes a rich selection of historical, anthropolo
Western medicine as contested knowledge
Language: en
Pages: 305
Authors: Andrew Cunningham
Categories: Medical
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-03-01 - Publisher: Manchester University Press

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Medicine has always been a significant tool of an empire. This book focuses on the issue of the contestation of knowledge, and examines the non-Western response