Biomedicine as a Contested Site Some

Presents biomedicine as a site of contestation and conflicts. Topics include colonizing Egypt, medical knowledge and professional power, disease and the fight for empire in Cuba (1868 to 1898), and contraception and resistance on commercial farms in colonial Rhodesia. For advanced undergraduate and graduate students, and medical historians. Softcover, hardcover profiled 2009-4.

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction: Contested "Ventures": Explaining Biomedicine in Colonial Contexts	p. 1
Colonizing Mother Egypt, Domesticating Egyptian Mothers	p. 9
"Defying" Medical Autonomy: Indigenous Elites and Medicine in Colonial India	p. 29
Medical Knowledge and Professional Power: From the Luso-Brazilian Context to Imperial Brazil	p. 45
The Invincible Generals: Yellow Fever and the Fight for Empire in Cuba, 1868-1898	p. 67
The White Man in the Bedroom: Contraception and Resistance on Commercial Farms in Colonial Rhodesia	p. 79
Translations and TransFormations: Toward Creating New Men in Early Twentieth-Century China	p. 99
Rejected or Elected? Processes of Therapeutic Selection and Colonial Medicines in French Vietnam, 1905-1939	p. 115
Articulating Medical Ideas: Medicine and Medical Education in New Spain	p. 135
Disease, Doctors and De beers Capitalists: Smallpox and Scandal in Colonial Kimberley (South Africa) during the Mineral Revolution and British Imperialism, c. 1882-1883	p. 153
Submitting to Surgery in the 1890s: Four Vignettes	p. 171
Index	p. 191
About the Contributors	p. 195
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Biomedicine as a Contested Site Some Revelations in Imperial Contexts

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