Biomedicine As A Contested Site
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Biomedicine As A Contested Site
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Author : Poonam Bala
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2008-10-16
Biomedicine As A Contested Site written by Poonam Bala and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10-16 with Social Science categories.
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.
Public Health At The Border Of Zimbabwe And Mozambique 1890 1940
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Author : Francis Dube
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2020-06-29
Public Health At The Border Of Zimbabwe And Mozambique 1890 1940 written by Francis Dube and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-29 with History categories.
This book is the first major work to explore the utility of the border as a theoretical, methodological, and interpretive construct for understanding colonial public health by considering African experiences in the Zimbabwe-Mozambique borderland. It examines the impact of colonial public health measures such as medical examinations/inspections, vaccinations, and border surveillance on African villagers in this borderland. The book asks whether the conjunction of a particular colonized society, a distinctive kind of colonialism, and a particular territorial border generated reluctance to embrace public health because of certain colonial circumstances which impeded the acceptance of therapeutic alternatives that were embraced by colonized people elsewhere. It asks historians to look elsewhere for similar kinds of histories involving racialized application of public health policies in colonial borderlands.
Learning From Empire
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Author : Poonam Bala
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2019-01-15
Learning From Empire written by Poonam Bala and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-15 with Medical categories.
Internationalisation of medical knowledge, its circulation and implementation through colonial institutions have played a significant role in combating diseases of public health importance. With contributions from reputed faculty and researchers, this volume examines the dynamics of circulation of medical knowledge and the creation of webs of empire through medical curiosities, medical and architectural knowledge, medical manuscripts, African agency, medical ideas and management of diseases, surgical and anatomical knowledge and a collective scientific enterprise in translating ‘local’ to ‘universal’ paradigms of practice.
Gender And The Making Of Modern Medicine In Colonial Egypt
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Author : Hibba Abugideiri
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-04-15
Gender And The Making Of Modern Medicine In Colonial Egypt written by Hibba Abugideiri and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-15 with History categories.
Gender and the Making of Modern Medicine in Colonial Egypt investigates the use of medicine as a 'tool of empire' to serve the state building process in Egypt by the British colonial administration. It argues that the colonial state effectively transformed Egyptian medical practice and medical knowledge in ways that were decidedly gendered. On the one hand, women medical professionals who had once trained as 'doctresses' (hakimas) were now restricted in their medical training and therefore saw their social status decline despite colonial modernity's promise of progress. On the other hand, the introduction of colonial medicine gendered Egyptian medicine in ways that privileged men and masculinity. Far from being totalized colonial subjects, Egyptian doctors paradoxically reappropriated aspects of Victorian science to forge an anticolonial nationalist discourse premised on the Egyptian woman as mother of the nation. By relegating Egyptian women - whether as midwives or housewives - to maternal roles in the home, colonial medicine was determinative in diminishing what control women formerly exercised over their profession, homes and bodies through its medical dictates to care for others. By interrogating how colonial medicine was constituted, Hibba Abugideiri reveals how the rise of the modern state configured the social formation of native elites in ways directly tied to the formation of modern gender identities, and gender inequalities, in colonial Egypt.
Native Diasporas
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Author : Gregory D. Smithers
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2014-06-01
Native Diasporas written by Gregory D. Smithers and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-01 with Social Science categories.
The arrival of European settlers in the Americas disrupted indigenous lifeways, and the effects of colonialism shattered Native communities. Forced migration and human trafficking created a diaspora of cultures, languages, and people. Gregory D. Smithers and Brooke N. Newman have gathered the work of leading scholars, including Bill Anthes, Duane Champagne, Daniel Cobb, Donald Fixico, and Joy Porter, among others, in examining an expansive range of Native peoples and the extent of their influences through reaggregation. These diverse and wide-ranging essays uncover indigenous understandings of self-identification, community, and culture through the speeches, cultural products, intimate relations, and political and legal practices of Native peoples. Native Diasporas explores how indigenous peoples forged a sense of identity and community amid the changes wrought by European colonialism in the Caribbean, the Pacific Islands, and the mainland Americas from the seventeenth through the twentieth century. Broad in scope and groundbreaking in the topics it explores, this volume presents fresh insights from scholars devoted to understanding Native American identity in meaningful and methodologically innovative ways.
Healers And Empires In Global History
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Author : Markku Hokkanen
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2019-04-15
Healers And Empires In Global History written by Markku Hokkanen and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-15 with History categories.
This book explores cross-cultural medical encounters involving non-Western healers in a variety of imperial contexts from the Arctic, Asia, Africa, Americas and the Caribbean. It highlights contests over healing, knowledge and medicines through the frameworks of hybridisation and pluralism. The intertwined histories of medicine, empire and early globalisation influenced the ways in which millions of people encountered and experienced suffering, healing and death. In an increasingly global search for therapeutics and localised definition of acceptable healing, networks and mobilities played key roles. Healers’ engagements with politics, law and religion underline the close connections between healing, power and authority. They also reveal the agency of healers, sufferers and local societies, in encounters with modernising imperial states, medical science and commercialisation. The book questions and complements the traditional narratives of triumphant biomedicine, reminding readers that ‘traditional’ medical cultures and practitioners did not often disappear, but rather underwent major changes in the increasingly interconnected world.
Zambia Social Science Journal Vol 3 No 2
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Author : Jotham Momba
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2015-09-10
Zambia Social Science Journal Vol 3 No 2 written by Jotham Momba and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-10 with Political Science categories.
This journal has been discontinued. Any issues are available to purchase separately.
Sharing The Burden Of Sickness
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Author : Jonathan Roberts
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2021-11-09
Sharing The Burden Of Sickness written by Jonathan Roberts and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-09 with Health & Fitness categories.
A medical history of Accra that accounts for plural medical traditions and multiple notions of health and healing.
Locating The Medical
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Author : Rohan Deb Roy
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017-11-21
Locating The Medical written by Rohan Deb Roy and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-21 with History categories.
This volume interrogates the foundational categories that have come to define medical science in modern South Asia. It seeks to probe issues such as what constitutes the ‘medical’, in which context, and who defines it. This is achieved through case studies that range from the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries, from colonial Bengal and British Burma to present-day Andaman Islands and Ladakh. By examining the close interactions between political authorities, corporeal knowledge, and objects of governance in a sustained manner, the domains of the medical and the non-medical are revealed to be more blurred and porous than apparent. This provides us with new perspectives on the co-production of medicine and social worlds by actors and agencies in specific times and places.
Colonizing Animals
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Author : Jonathan Saha
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2021-11-11
Colonizing Animals written by Jonathan Saha and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-11 with History categories.
A pathbreaking history of British imperialism in Myanmar from the early nineteenth century to 1942 populated by animals.