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Medicine and Colonialism

Medicine and Colonialism

Poonam Bala

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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Año de edición:
2014
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9781848934658
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Focusing on India and South Africa during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the essays in this collection address power and enforced modernity as applied to medicine. Clashes between traditional methods of healing and the practices brought in by colonizers are explored across both territories.

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