Paru récemment Medicine and Colonialism. Historical Perspectives in India and South Africa, sous la direction de Poonam Bala

Medicine and Colonialism. Historical Perspectives in India and South Africa, sous la direction de Poonam Bala, "Empires in Perspective" (n° 22), Pickering & Chatto Publishers, 2014, 240 p. ISBN 9781848934658 Prix : 80,20 € et eBook : 21,63 €

"Focusing on India and South Africa during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the essays in this collection address power and enforced modernity as applied to medicine. Clashes between traditional methods of healing and the practices brought in by colonizers are explored across both territories. Chapters address issues of education, public health, autonomy and the transfer of knowledge, using case studies on birth-control, plague, human-animal diseases, AIDS, the legal system and the treatment of the mentally ill to compare and contrast these ex-British colonies."

’Anyone interested in the mechanics of medical colonialism and its persistent impacts, meanings and interactions, will benefit from these fascinating and diverse new contributions which are deeply researched and lucidly presented.’ Allan M Brandt, Harvard University