Biomedicine as a contested site : some revelations in imperial contexts /

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Imprint:	Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, ©2009.
Description:	1 online resource (ix, 197 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	Imperialism -- Health aspects -- History. Colonization -- Health aspects -- History. Medicine -- History -- 19th century. Medicine -- History -- 20th century. Medical policy -- History. Colonization -- Health aspects. Imperialism -- Health aspects. Medical policy. Medicine. Health Policy -- history. Colonialism -- history. Delivery of Health Care -- history. History, 19th Century. History, 20th Century. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11403260

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Other authors / contributors:	Bala, Poonam, 1958-
ISBN:	9780739131381 0739131389 9780739124604 0739124609 9780739124611 0739124617
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	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.
Other form:	Print version: Biomedicine as a contested site. Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, ©2009 9780739124604

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