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

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ISBN 10: 9888139525 ISBN 13: 9789888139521

Casa editrice: Hong Kong Univ Pr, 2014

Riassunto

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.”

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Robert Peckham is director 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: 2014
• ISBN 10: 9888139525
• ISBN 13: 9789888139521
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 307
• Redattore: Peckham Robert, Pomfret David M.