Biomedicine as a contested site: some revelations in imperial contexts
Éditeur :
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN :
9780739124611
Date de publication :
16 oct. 2008
Dimensions :
23,5 x 15,5 x 1,5 cm
Poids :
322 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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.