Imperial Contagions Medicine, Hygiene, and Cultures of Planning in Asia
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Imperial Contagions complicates common historical narratives portraying a straightforward shift from older, enclavist models of colonial medicine to newer pursuits of prevention and treatment among indigenous populations and European residents. In a series of essays, the volume shows colonial medicine was not a homogeneous, "on the ground" phenomenon but rather a practice rife with tensions and contradictions. Indigenous elites contested and appropriated Western medical knowledge and practices for their own purposes, while colonial policies contained contradictory and cross-cutting impulses. Contributors ultimately challenge the long-standing belief that colonial regimes uniformly regulated indigenous bodies and that colonial medicine served as a "tool of empire."
Book information
ISBN: | 9789888139521 |
Publisher: | Hong Kong University Press |
Imprint: | Hong Kong University Press |
Pub date: | 23 Apr 2013 |
DEWEY: | 362.1095 |
DEWEY edition: | 23 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 320 |
Weight: | 466g |
Height: | 230mm |
Width: | 163mm |
Spine width: | 18mm |