Medicine and Colonial Identity

ISBN-13: 9780415288804 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 160 str.

Mary Sutphen; Mary Sutphen; Bridie Andrews

Opis

Individuals or groups define their identities in particular ways, choosing from a long list of social variables: nationality, class, race, gender, age, sexuality, occupation or marital status, all of which may change either by choice or fiat. During the 20th century, the issue of identity became increasingly important and yet it remains a problematic category of historical analysis. The historical record is full of diplomats and peasants discussing medicine and health concerns and topics which are significant to the study of medicine - professionalization, therapeutic choice, medical education and medical practice - topics which allow us to juxtapose a number of different strands of identity.

Spis treści

1. Bridie Andrews and Mary P. Sutphen Introduction2. Maneesha Lal 'The Ignorance of Women is the House of Illness': Gender, Nationalism and Health Reform in Colonial North India3. David Gordon A Sword of Empire? Medicine and Colonialism at Kingwilliamstown, Xhosaland, 1856-18914. Hilary Marland Midwives, Missions and Reform: Colonizing Dutch Childbirth Services at Home and Abroad c.19005. Philippa Mein Smith New Zealand Milk for 'Building Britons'6. Suzanne Parry Tropical Medicine and Colonial Identity in Northern Australia7. Roy MacLeod Colonial Doctors and National Myths: On Telling Lives in Australian Medical Biography

O autorze

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.