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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Colonial Medicine"”.
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The management of malaria and leprosy in Hong Kong and the International Settlement of Shanghai, 1880s-1940s
… China, this project explores the production of colonial medical knowledge within a transnational context, presents new and original analyses of the local history of the disease, and bridges the historiography of the British Empire and that of modern China. Secondly this dissertation contrasts …
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Medical pluralism in central Mexico in the early colonial period
… pluralism in central Mexico during the early colonial period, surveying the medical landscape to recognise spaces for and evidence of, medical assimilation and exchange between Spanish, Indian and Black populations. Recognising that medicine during this period was a combination of science, …
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Medical modernity: Rethinking the health work of Filipina women under Spanish and U.S. colonial rule, 1870-1948
… Work of Filipina Women Under Spanish and U.S. Colonial Rule, 1870-1948,” is a history of colonial medicine from the perspective of women who had a range of health encounters with colonial officials. It makes three claims. First, I argue that modern medicine in the Philippines was produced …
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The Signatures of Plants in Early Modern Europe, 1580-1720
… as a technique in early modern science and medicine. By signature, it refers to the sensory characteristics of plants that were taken as indicators of their medicinal properties, often in the form of visual resemblances between plants and human organs or disease symptoms. It focuses on …