Medicine and Colonialism: Historical Perspectives in India and South Africa (Empires in Perspective)

Poonam Bala (Editor)

$83.94

Publication Date: January 1st, 2014

Publisher:

Routledge

ISBN:

9781848934658

Pages:

240

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Description

Focusing on India and South Africa during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the essays in this collection address power and enforced modernity as applied to medicine. Clashes between traditional methods of healing and the practices brought in by colonizers are explored across both territories.

Medicine and Colonialism: Historical Perspectives in India and South Africa (Empires in Perspective)

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India in the French Imagination: Peripheral Voices, 1754-1815 (Empires in Perspective)

Natural Science and the Origins of the British Empire (Empires in Perspective)

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Colonialism, China and the Chinese: Amidst Empires (Empires in Perspective)

The First World War, Anticolonialism and Imperial Authority in British India, 1914-1924 (Empires in Perspective)

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