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Crossing Colonial Historiographies : Histories of Colonial and Indigenous Medicines in Transnational Perspective /

This book offers an innovative engagement Other the diverse histories of colonial and indigenous medicines. Engagement Other different kinds of colonialism and varied indigenous socio-political cultures has led to a wide range of approaches and increasingly distinct traditions of historical writing...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Digby, Anne (Editor ), Ernst, Waltraud, 1955- (Editor ), Muhkarji, Projit B. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Crossing Historiographies, Connecting Histories and Their Historians / Anne Digby, Waltraud Ernst and Projit B. Muhkarji.
  • Interweaving Substance Trajectories: Tiryaq, Circulation and Therapeutic Transformation in the Nineteenth Century / Guy Attewell.
  • Winter Worm, Summer Grass: Cordyceps, Colonial Chinese Medicine, and the Formation of Historical Objects / Carla Nappi.
  • Researching Amok in Malaysia / Thomas Williamson.
  • Russian Imperial Medicine: The Case of the Kazakh Steppe / Anna Afanasyeva.
  • Multiple Colonizations: State Formation, Public Health and the Yucatec Maya, 1891-1960 / David Sowell.
  • Medical Pluralism as a Historical Phenomenon: A Regional and Multi-Level Approach to Health Care in German, British and Independent East Africa / Walter Bruchhausen.
  • Crossing Colonial and Medical Boundaries: Plural Medicine on Java, 1850-1910 / Liesbeth Hesselink.
  • Towards a Cultural History of Medicine(s) in Colonial Central Africa / Markku Hokkanen.
  • Crossing Colonies and Empires: The Health Services of the Diamond Company of Angola / Jorge Varanda.
  • Medicine, Colonial Order and Local Action in Goa / Cristiana Bastos.
  • Loosening the Bonds of Historical Prejudice: Traditional Practitioners as Agents of Reconciliation and Change in Contemporary South Africa / Jo Wreford.