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Anglický jazyk
Dis-Ease in the Colonial State
Autor: Osaak A. Olumwullah
Olumwullah examines disease, biomedicine, and processes of social change among the AbaNyole of Western Kenya. He analyzes the introduction and use of biomedicine as a cultural tool of domination by British colonizers and the AbaNyole's reaction to this therapeutic... Viac o knihe
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O knihe
Olumwullah examines disease, biomedicine, and processes of social change among the AbaNyole of Western Kenya. He analyzes the introduction and use of biomedicine as a cultural tool of domination by British colonizers and the AbaNyole's reaction to this therapeutic tradition and its technologies. He argues that biomedicine is a tool that the colonizers used to think about the colonized. Through an examination of ideas about order and disorder in Nyole cosmology; Nyole experiences with new diseases and biomedical practices that were brought to bear on these diseases; and how these experiences and the meanings they produced transformed metaphors of disease, illness, and healing, this study argues that, just as colonialism was more than a quest for the construction of exploitative political and economic institutions, so was biomedicine more than a mere matter of scientific interest based on benevolent neutrality.
- Vydavateľstvo: Praeger
- Rok vydania: 2000
- Formát: Hardback
- Rozmer: 240 x 161 mm
- Jazyk: Anglický jazyk
- ISBN: 9780313320033
