Biomedicine as a Contested Site: Some Revelations in Imperial Contexts

English

ISBN: 0739131389

EAN: 9780739131381

Category: Medical / History/Medical / Health Care Delivery/Political Science / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism/Political Science / Imperialism/Medical / Health Policy/

Publisher: Lexington Books

Release Date: 10/16/2008

Synopsis: This volume presents biomedicine as a site of contestation and conflicts, of processes of adaptation, accommodation, and of resistance, in a unique relationship with colonization and social control in a medical encounter that signaled the limits of State control of indigenous populations.

Biomedicine as a Contested Site: Some Revelations in Imperial Contexts

Illustrated: No

Format: eBook - PDF

Pages: 196