Beyond East and West. From the History of Colonial Medicine to a Social History of Medicine(s) in South Asia
@article{Ernst2007BeyondEA,
title={Beyond East and West. From the History of Colonial Medicine to a Social History of Medicine(s) in South Asia},
author={Waltraud Ernst},
journal={Social History of Medicine},
year={2007},
volume={20},
pages={505-524}
}Summary.Thisarticlereflectsontheoriesandmethodologiesthathavecharacterisedthefieldofthehistory of colonial medicine over the last couple of decades. It discusses the merits and flaws ofhitherto predominant conceptual paradigms that concerned themselves mainly with issues ofpower, governmentality, the status of modernity and the ‘condition’ of the colonisers and thecolonised. The recent shift in research focus from western or colonial medicine to the multiplicityof indigenous medicines is assessed…
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