TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bala,Poonam
TI  - Biomedicine as a contested site: some revelations in imperial contexts 
SN  - 9780739131381
AV  - R149 .B56 2009eb
U1  - 610.28 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Lanham, MD
PB  - Lexington Books
KW  - Imperialism
KW  - Health aspects
KW  - History
KW  - Colonization
KW  - Medicine
KW  - 19th century
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Medical policy
KW  - Health Policy
KW  - history
KW  - Colonialism
KW  - Delivery of Health Care
KW  - History, 19th Century
KW  - History, 20th Century
KW  - Médecine
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 19e siècle
KW  - 20e siècle
KW  - Politique sanitaire
KW  - TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING
KW  - Biomedical
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - MEDICAL
KW  - Family & General Practice
KW  - Allied Health Services
KW  - Medical Technology
KW  - Biotechnology
KW  - Lasers in Medicine
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - 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
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