Curative powers : medicine and empire in Stalin's Central Asia /

This work reconstructs how the Soviet government used medicine and public health policy to transform the society, politics and culture of its outlying regions - Kazakhstan in particular. It is an archival and ethnographical research revealing the Soviets' colonial dominion of the Kazakhs.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Michaels, Paula A., 1966- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, ©2003.
Colección:Series in Russian and East European studies.
University of Pittsburgh Press Digital Editions
University of Pittsburgh Digital Collections
Temas:
Social medicine > Kazakhstan.
Medical policy > Kazakhstan.
Health Policy > Kazakhstan > History.
Political Systems > Kazakhstan > History.
Sociology, Medical > Kazakhstan > History.
Sociology, Medical > history
Health Policy > history
Political Systems > history
Politique sanitaire > Kazakhstan.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
HISTORY > General.
Cultural policy.
Medical policy.
Social medicine.
Sozialmedizin
Regierung
Kolonialisme.
Gezondheidszorg.
Politieke aspecten.
Kazakhstan > Cultural policy.
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan.
Kasachstan
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Discourse
  • Kazakh Medicine and Russian Colonialism, 1861-1928
  • A Brief History of Kazakhstan
  • Kazakh Ethnomedical Practices
  • Russian Orientalism and Kazakh Medicine
  • The Roots of Biomedicine in Kazakhstan
  • Medical Propaganda and Cultural Revolution
  • Origins and Methods of Biomedical Propaganda
  • The Construction of Kazakh Culture in Biomedical Propaganda
  • The Doctor-Hero in Biomedical Propaganda
  • Limits and Impact of the Biomedical Drive
  • Institution-Building
  • Medical Education and the Formation of a New Elite
  • The Expansion of Biomedical Education
  • Nativization and Medical Education
  • Interethnic Relations and Political Persecution
  • The Politics of the Medical Curriculum
  • Building Socialism: Medical Cadres in the Field
  • Facility Expansion and Cadre Distribution
  • Obstacles to Effective Health Care
  • The Impact of Medical and Public Health Services
  • Practice
  • The Politics of Women's Health Care
  • Kazakh Women's Everyday Life and Bolshevik Visions of Emancipation
  • Kazakh Women and the OMM: Clinical Practice and Beyond
  • Abortion and Pronatalism
  • Wartime and Postwar OMM Services
  • Medical and Public Health Policy toward the Kazakh Nomads
  • "Islands in the Steppe": Red Yurts and Communist Policy
  • Collectivization and Sedentarization of the Nomads
  • Kazakhstan's Nomads and Medical Care after Collectivization.

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