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Curing Their Ills: Colonial Power and African Illness
Curing Their Ills Colonial Power and African Illness
Author: Megan Vaughan
This study traces the history of encounters between European medicine and African societies in the 19th and 20th centuries. Vaughan's examination of medical discourse of the period reveals its shifting and fragmented nature, highlights its use in the creation of the colonial subject in Africa and explores the conflict between its pretensions to ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780745607801
ISBN-10: 0745607802
Publication Date: 9/19/1991
Pages: 220
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Publisher: Polity Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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