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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"medical modernity"”.
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Medical modernity: Rethinking the health work of Filipina women under Spanish and U.S. colonial rule, 1870-1948
“Medical Modernity: Rethinking the Health 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 …
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Making Healthy Minds and Bodies in Syria and Lebanon, 1899 - 1961
… hospitals in the region such as the Protestant medical missionary-run Asfuriyeh near Beirut. Ibn Sina hospital staff were so careful to present a purely psychiatric framework for illness that they distanced themselves almost completely from vernacular healing. This decision, perhaps ironically, …
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Cultural Encounters in Medicine: (Re)Constituting Traditional Medicine in Taiwan under Colonization, Modernity, and Exchange
… Even so, the island witnessed an institutional medical shift, in which licensed practitioners of modern medicine deified modern medicine and denigrated traditional medicine, labeling the latter "primitive" and "non-medicine." In response, practitioners of traditional medicine produced new …