| Description |
1 online resource (271 pages) |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 about colonial and indigenous modes of healing have emerged in the various regions formerly ruled by different colonial powers. The volume offers a much-needed opportunity to explore new conceptual p .. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest, viewed March 12, 2018) |
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Traditional medicine -- History
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Medical care -- History
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Traditional medicine -- Historiography
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Colonies -- History
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Medicine -- Historiography.
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Historiography.
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Medicine, Traditional -- history
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Historiography
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Colonialism -- history
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Delivery of Health Care -- history
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historiography.
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Colonialism & imperialism.
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Historiography.
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General & world history.
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MEDICAL -- Pharmacology.
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Historiography
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Colonies
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Medical care
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Medicine -- Historiography
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Traditional medicine
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Kolonialismus
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Medizin
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Kulturkontakt
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Historiography.
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Traditional medicine.
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Colonial history (science)
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Medizingeschichte -- Kolonialismus -- Geschichte Neuzeit.
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Kolonialismus -- Medizingeschichte -- Geschichte Neuzeit.
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Java.
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British colonies.
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China.
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Russia.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Digby, Anne, editor.
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Ernst, Waltraud, 1955- editor.
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Muhkarji, Projit B., editor.
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| LC no. |
2010674534 |
| ISBN |
9781443822121 |
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1443822124 |
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9781443821544 |
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1443821543 |
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1282776487 |
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9781282776487 |
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9786612776489 |
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661277648X |
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