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Title Western medicine as contested knowledge / edited by Andrew Cunningham and Bridie Andrews
Published New York : Manchester University Press : Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press, [1997]
©1997

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Description ix, 294 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series Studies in imperialism
Studies in imperialism (Manchester, England)
Contents Machine derived contents note: General introduction - page vii -- The contributors - page viii -- Acknowledgements - page ix -- -- Introduction: Western medicine as contested -- knowledge -- Andrew Cunningham and Bridie Andrews -- -- 1 WHO and the developing world: the contest for -- ideology -- Sung Lee -- -- 2 AIDS from Africa: Western science or racist -- mythology? -- Rosalind J. Harrison-Chirimuuta -- -- 3 Elders and experts: contesting veterinary knowledge -- in a pastoral community -- Richard Waller and Kathy Homewood -- -- 4 Dances with doctors: Navajo encounters with the -- Indian Health Service -- Stephen J. Kunitz and Jerrold E. Levy -- -- 5 What/who should be controlled? Opposition to yellow -- fever campaigns in Brazil, 1900-39 -- Ilana Lowy -- -- 6 The hook of hookworm: public health and the politics -- of eradication in Mexico -- Anne-Emanuelle Birn and Armando Sol6rzano -- -- 7 Unequal contenders, uneven ground: medical encounters -- in British India, 1820-1920 -- Deepak Kumar -- -- -- -- 8 Plural traditions? Folk therapeutics and 'English' -- medicine in Rajasthan -- Helen Lambert -- -- 9 The reduction of personhood to brain and rationality? -- Japanese contestation of medical high technology -- Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney -- -- 10 Rumoured power: Hong Kong, 1894 and Cape Town, -- 1901 -- Mary Preston Sutphen -- -- 11 Drug-resistant malaria: a global problem and the Thai -- response -- Helen Power -- -- Guide to further reading - page 287 -- Index - page 291
Notes Bibliography: p287-290. _ Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-290) and index
Subject Public health -- Political aspects -- Developing countries.
Imperialism.
Traditional medicine -- Developing countries.
Social medicine -- Developing countries.
Medicine -- Political aspects -- Developing countries.
Author Cunningham, Andrew, Dr.
Andrews, Bridie.
LC no. 96034392
ISBN 0719046734