Imperial Contagions: Medicine, Hygiene, and Cultures of Planning in Asia - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 9888139126 ISBN 13: 9789888139125

Casa editrice: Hong Kong Univ Pr, 2013

Riassunto

Imperial Contagions argues that there was no straightforward shift from older, enclavist models of colonial medicine to a newer emphasis on prevention and treatment of disease among indigenous populations as well as European residents. It shows that colonial medicine was not at all homogeneous "on the ground" but was riven with tensions and contradictions. Indigenous elites contested and appropriated Western medical knowledge and practices for their own purposes. Colonial policies contained contradictory and cross-cutting impulses. This book challenges assumptions that colonial regimes were uniformly able to regulate indigenous bodies and that colonial medicine served as a "tool of empire."

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L'autore:

Robert Peckham is codirector of the Centre for the Humanities and Medicine and an assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of Hong Kong.

David M. Pomfret is an associate professor in the Department of History at the University of Hong Kong.

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• Editore: Hong Kong Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 9888139126
• ISBN 13: 9789888139125
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 307
• Redattore: Peckham Robert, Pomfret David M.