Biomedicine as a contested site : some revelations in imperial contexts / edited by Poonam Bala.

Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, [2009], ©2009.

ix, 197 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Colonizing mother Egypt, domesticating Egyptian mothers / Hibba Abugideri -- "Defying" medical autonomy : indigenous elites and medicine in colonial India / Poonam Bala -- Medical knowledge and professional power : from the Luso-Brazilian context to imperial Brazil / Flavio Coelho Edler -- The invincible generals : yellow fever and the fight for empire in Cuba, 1868-1898 / Mariola Espinosa -- The White man in the bedroom : contraception and resistance on commercial farms in colonial Rhodesia / Amy Kaler -- Translations and transformations : towards creating new men in early twentieth-century China / Angelika C. Messner -- Rejected or elected? : processes of therapeutic selection and colonial medicines in French Vietnam, 1905-1939 / Laurence Monnais -- Articulating medical ideas : medicine and medical education in New Spain / Martha Eugenia Rodriguez -- Disease, doctors and De Beers capitalists : smallpox and scandal in colonial Kimberley (South Africa) during the mineral revolution and British imperialism, c. 1882-1883 / Russell Stafford Viljoen -- Submitting to surgery in the 1890s : four vignettes / Sally Wilde.

Includes bibliographical references and index.