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In recent years it has become apparent that the interaction of imperialism with disease, medical research, and the administration of health policies is considerably more complex. This book reflects the breadth and interdisciplinary range of current scholarship applied to a variety of imperial experiences in different continents. Common themes and widely applicable modes of analysis emerge include the confrontation between indigenous and western medical systems, the role of medicine in war and resistance, and the nature of approaches to mental health. The book identifies disease and medicine as a site of contact, conflict and possible eventual convergence between western rulers and indigenous peoples, and illustrates the contradictions and rivalries within the imperial order. The causes and consequences of this rapid transition from white man's medicine to public health during the latter decades of the nineteenth and early years of the twentieth centuries are touched upon. By the late 1850s, each of the presidency towns of Calcutta, Bombay and Madras could boast its own 'asylum for the European insane'; about twenty 'native lunatic asylums' had been established in provincial towns. To many nineteenth-century British medical officers smallpox was 'the scourge of India'. Following the British discovery in 1901 of a major sleeping sickness epidemic in Uganda, King Leopold of Belgium invited the recently established Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine to examine his Congo Free State. Cholera claimed its victims from all levels of society, including Americans, prominent Filipinos, Chinese, and Spaniards.
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Genre |
: History |
Author |
: David Arnold |
Publisher |
: Manchester University Press |
Release |
: 1988 |
File |
: 248 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 0719024951 |
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For centuries, cultural imperialism has been practiced by Western colonizing nations seeking to extend their hegemony around the globe. In this insightful study, Hewa sheds new light on the often ignored role that Western medicine has played in this expansionist project. At the center of his analysis, the author cites colonial economic policies both as the facilitator of the spread of epidemic diseases in the tropics and as a vehicle for promoting the superiority of Western medicine that sought their cure. Sri Lanka is the geographical focus of the study, providing the first comprehensive analysis of the impact of European colonial policies on the health and disease of that population. Hewa concentrates primarily on the British and American cultural imperialism and how against this backdrop the intervention of Rockefeller philanthropy in Sri Lanka is examined.
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Genre |
: Medical |
Author |
: Soma Hewa |
Publisher |
: University Press of America |
Release |
: 1995 |
File |
: 230 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 0819199397 |
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In 1866 Patrick Manson, a young Scottish doctor fresh from medical school, left London to launch his career in China as a port surgeon for the Imperial Chinese Customs Service. For the next two decades, he served in this outpost of British power in the Far East, and extended the frontiers of British medicine. In 1899, at the twilight of his career and as the British Empire approached its zenith, he founded the London School of Tropical Medicine. For these contributions Manson would later be called the "father of British tropical medicine." In Imperial Medicine: Patrick Manson and the Conquest of Tropical Disease Douglas M. Haynes uses Manson's career to explore the role of British imperialism in the making of Victorian medicine and science. He challenges the categories of "home" and "empire" that have long informed accounts of British medicine and science, revealing a vastly more dynamic, dialectical relationship between the imperial metropole and periphery than has previously been recognized. Manson's decision to launch his career in China was no accident; the empire provided a critical source of career opportunities for a chronically overcrowded profession in Britain. And Manson used the London media's interest in the empire to advance his scientific agenda, including the discovery of the transmission of malaria in 1898, which he portrayed as British science. The empire not only created a demand for practitioners but also enhanced the presence of British medicine throughout the world. Haynes documents how the empire subsidized research science at the London School of Tropical Medicine and elsewhere in Britain in the early twentieth century. By illuminating the historical enmeshment of Victorian medicine and science in Britain's imperial project, Imperial Medicine identifies the present-day privileged distribution of specialist knowledge about disease with the lingering consequences of European imperialism.
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Genre |
: History |
Author |
: Douglas M. Haynes |
Publisher |
: University of Pennsylvania Press |
Release |
: 2013-03-01 |
File |
: 240 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780812202212 |
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An accessible introduction to the social history of medicine in Europe during the nineteenth and early twentieth century, set within its political, cultural, intellectual and economic contexts
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Genre |
: History |
Author |
: Deborah Brunton |
Publisher |
: Manchester University Press |
Release |
: 2004-09-04 |
File |
: 444 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 0719067359 |
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Cook explores the development of clinical tropical medicine from the 19th century onwards by following the pioneering doctors in this discipline, their personalities, achievements and scientific breakthroughs.
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Genre |
: History |
Author |
: G. C. Cook |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Release |
: 2015-11-19 |
File |
: 370 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781474241724 |
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The Demographics of Empire is a collection of essays examining the multifaceted nature of the colonial science of demography in the last two centuries. The contributing scholars of Africa and the British and French empires focus on three questions: How have historians, demographers, and other social scientists understood colonial populations? What were the demographic realities of African societies and how did they affect colonial systems of power? Finally, how did demographic theories developed in Europe shape policies and administrative structures in the colonies? The essays approach the subject as either broad analyses of major demographic questions in Africa’s history or focused case studies that demonstrate how particular historical circumstances in individual African societies contributed to differing levels of fertility, mortality, and migration. Together, the contributors to The Demographics of Empire question demographic orthodoxy, and in particular the assumption that African societies in the past exhibited a single demographic regime characterized by high fertility and high mortality.
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Genre |
: History |
Author |
: Karl Ittmann |
Publisher |
: Ohio University Press |
Release |
: 2010-11-15 |
File |
: 303 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780821443484 |
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Britain's overseas history has never been well supplied with comprehensive bibliographical aids, and, despite extensive public interest in the subject, the position has steadily worsened. Following the recent Oxford History of the British Empire, this volume is therefore designed to provide a general source of reference and bibliographical guidance, at once wide-ranging, up-to-date, and accessible.
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Genre |
: History |
Author |
: Andrew N. Porter |
Publisher |
: Clarendon Press |
Release |
: 2002 |
File |
: 1088 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: UOM:39015055808508 |
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Genre |
: South Africa |
Author |
: |
Publisher |
: |
Release |
: 1990 |
File |
: 858 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: UVA:X001759518 |
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Genre |
: Great Britain |
Author |
: Biswamoy Pati |
Publisher |
: |
Release |
: 2001 |
File |
: 432 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: CHI:58030469 |
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Vols. for 1975- include publications cataloged by the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library with additional entries from the Library of Congress MARC tapes.
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Genre |
: Congresses and conventions |
Author |
: New York Public Library. Research Libraries |
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: |
Release |
: 1989 |
File |
: 660 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: UOM:39015055039443 |