Curing Their Ills
Author:   Megan Vaughan
Publisher:   Stanford University Press
Edition:   New edition
ISBN:  

9780804719704


Pages:   236
Publication Date:   01 November 1991
Format:   Hardback
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Curing Their Ills


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Author:   Megan Vaughan
Publisher:   Stanford University Press
Imprint:   Stanford University Press
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 10.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 20.00cm
Weight:   0.495kg
ISBN:  

9780804719704


ISBN 10:   0804719705
Pages:   236
Publication Date:   01 November 1991
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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List of illustrations; Preface; 1. Introduction: discourse, subjectivity and differences; 2. Rats' tails and trypanosomes: nature and culture in early colonial medicine; 3. The great dispensary in the sky: mission medicine; 4. Without the camp: institutions and identities in the colonial history of leprosy; 5. The madman and the medicine men: colonial psychiatry and the theory of deculturation; 6. Syphilis and sexuality: the limits of colonial medical power; 7. Hippo happenings: jungle doctors, children and animals; 8. 'Seeing is believing': colonial health education films and the question of identity; 9. Conclusion: the changing nature of biochemical discourse on Africa; Bibliography; Index.

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