Biomedicine as a Contested Site: Some Revelations in Imperial Contexts

ISBN-13: 9780739124611 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 196 str.

Poonam Bala

Opis

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.