Biomedicine as a Contested Site: Some Revelations in Imperial Contexts

Biomedicine as a Contested Site: Some Revelations in Imperial Contexts Summary:

By Poonam Bala

Publisher:   Lexington Books

Number Of Pages:   196

Publication Date:   2008-09-26

ISBN-10 / ASIN:   0739124609

ISBN-13 / EAN:   9780739124604

Product Description:

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.

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