Andrews / Sutphen Medicine and Colonial Identity

Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-1-134-44118-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 160 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine

Over the last century, identity as an avenue of inquiry has become both an academic growth industry and a problematic category of historical analysis. This volume shows how the study of medicine can provide new insights into colonial identity, and the possibility of accommodating multiple perspectives on identity within a single narrative. Contributors to this volume explore the perceived self-identity of colonizers; the adoption of western and traditional medicine as complementary aspects of a new, modern and nationalist identity; the creation of a modern identity for women in the colonies; and the expression of a healer's identity by physicians of traditional medicine.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Andrews, Bridie

Sutphen, Mary P.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Postkoloniale Geschichte, Nationale Befreiung und Unabhängigkeit
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Bridie Andrews and Mary P. Sutphen Introduction

2. Maneesha Lal 'The Ignorance of Women is the House of Illness': Gender, Nationalism and Health Reform in Colonial North India

3. David Gordon A Sword of Empire? Medicine and Colonialism at Kingwilliamstown, Xhosaland, 1856-1891

4. Hilary Marland Midwives, Missions and Reform: Colonizing Dutch Childbirth Services at Home and Abroad c.1900

5. Philippa Mein Smith New Zealand Milk for 'Building Britons'

6. Suzanne Parry Tropical Medicine and Colonial Identity in Northern Australia

7. Roy MacLeod Colonial Doctors and National Myths: On Telling Lives in Australian Medical Biography

Über Autor(innen)

Mary P. Sutphen works as a consultant and is currently completing a book entitled Imperial Hygiene: Medicine and Public Health in the British Empire, 1880-1931, an analysis of the history of laboratory medicine in the British Empire.
Bridie Andrews is an Assistant Professor at Harvard University. Her publications include The Making of Modern Chinese Medicine and an edited volume with Andrew Cunningham entitled Western Medicine as Contested Knowledge.