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ISBN | 9789888139521 |
Format | PaperBack |
Language | English |
Year of Publication | 2013 |
Bib. Info | 320 p.; 6x9 |
Categories | History / Medicine, Health Sciences, Public Health / Southeast Asia |
Product Weight | 468 gms. |
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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.”