Western medicine as contested knowledge. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Andrew Cunningham and Bridie Andrews.
• Other Names: Dr, Cunningham, Andrew; Andrews, Bridie
• Contents: WHO and the developing world: the contest for ideology / Sung Lee -- AIDS from Africa: Western science or racist mythology? / Rosalind J. Harrison-Chirimuuta -- Elders and experts: contesting veterinary knowledge in a pastoral community / Richard Waller and Kathy Homewood -- Dances with doctors: Navajo encounters with the Indian Health Service / Stephen J. Kunitz and Jerrold E. Levy -- What/who should be controlled? Opposition to yellow fever campaigns in Brazil, 1900-39 / Ilana Löwy -- The hook of hookworm: public health and the politics of eradication in Mexico / Anne-Emanuelle Birn and Armando Solórzano -- Unequal contenders, uneven ground: medical encounters in British India, 1820-1920 / Deepak Kumar -- Plural traditions? Folk therapeutics and 'English' medicine in Rajasthan / Helen Lambert -- The reduction of personhood to brain and rationality? Japanese contestation of medical high technology / Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney -- Rumoured power: Hong Kong, 1894 and Cape Town, 1901 / Mary Preston Sutphen -- Drug-resistant malaria: a global problem and the Thai response / Helen Power.
• Publisher Details: Manchester : Manchester University Press
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (304 pages)
• Subjects: 306.4/61; Public health -- Political aspects -- Developing countries; Imperialism; Traditional medicine -- Developing countries; Social medicine -- Developing countries; Medicine -- Political aspects -- Developing countries; Public health; Traditional medicine; Social medicine; Medicine; Imperialism; Medicine; Medicine -- Political aspects; Public health; Public health -- Political aspects; Social medicine; Traditional medicine; Gezondheidszorg; Geneeskunde; Volksgeneeskunde; Imperialisme; Public Health; Politics; Developing Countries; Medicine, Traditional; Social Medicine; Developing countries; Student Collection
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781526123572; 1526123576
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.