Imperial Medicine and Indigenous Societies (Studies in Imperialism)

Hardcover and dust jacket. Jacket differs from stock photo. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Moderate toning. Pages unmarked. viii, 231 pages ; 24 cm. "For too long on the margins of the history of empire, the study of disease and medicine has begun to move center-stage. This book investigates the purposes, nature and impact of Western medicine in the 19th and early 20th centuries. It ranges widely, from the Belgians in the Congo to the Americans in the Philippines, from the treatment of European 'lunatics' in India to the 'discovery' of Third World malnutrition. But the central concern is the way in which colonial doctors and imperial medicine shapes the interaction between rulers and ruled." From the library Dr. Owen Hannaway. Hannaway was director of the Center for the History and Philosophy of Science at Johns Hopkins University. He authored numerous books and served as an editor of academic magazines in the history of science. Partial list of publications: Chemists and the Word: The Didactic Origins of Chemistry (1975); Observation, Experiment, and Hypothesis in Modern Physical Science (1985); The Evolution of Technology (1989); Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century (1994); and The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages: Their Religious, Institutional and Intellectual Contexts (1996).