![Histories of Medicine and Healing in the Indian Ocean World, Volume Two]( "Histories of Medicine and Healing in the Indian Ocean World, Volume Two")
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Winterbottom, A. (Ed), Tesfaye, F. (Ed) (2016)
The Indian Ocean has been the site of multiple interconnected medical interactions that may be viewed in the context of the environmental factors connecting the region. This …
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![Anglo-American Connections in Japanese Chemistry]( "Anglo-American Connections in Japanese Chemistry")
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Kikuchi, Y. (2013)
Anglo-Japanese and American-Japanese connections in chemistry had a major impact on the institutionalization of scientific and technological higher education in Japan from the …
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![Ayurveda Made Modern]( "Ayurveda Made Modern")
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Berger, R. (2013)
This book explores the ways in which Ayurveda, the oldest medical tradition of the Indian subcontinent, was transformed from a composite of 'ancient' medical knowledge into a …
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![The Spirit of Selflessness in Maoist China]( "The Spirit of Selflessness in Maoist China")
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Lynteris, C. (2013)
Assuming power in 1949, the Chinese Communist Party was soon faced with a crucial problem: how to construct the socialist 'New Man'? Using Foucault's theory of 'technologies of …
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![Telegraphic Imperialism]( "Telegraphic Imperialism")
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Lahiri Choudhury, D. K. (2010)
The first electronic communication network transformed language, distance, and time. This book researches the telegraph system of the British Indian Empire, c.1850 to 1920, …
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![The Administration of Sickness]( "The Administration of Sickness")
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Gallois, W. (2008)
This book is the first comprehensive study of French medicine in nineteenth-century Algeria. It argues that the medicalization was a priority for colonial regimes, but this goal …
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![Islam and Healing]( "Islam and Healing")
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Alavi, S. (2008)
Traces the Islamic healing tradition's interaction with Indian society and politics as these evolved in tandem from 1600 to 1900, and demonstrates how an in-house struggle for …
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![Drugs and Empires]( "Drugs and Empires")
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Mills, J. (Ed), Barton, P. (Ed) (2007)
Drugs and Empires introduces new research that re-evaluates the relationship between intoxicants and empires in the modern world. It re-examines controversies about such issues as …
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![Technology Gatekeepers for War and Peace]( "Technology Gatekeepers for War and Peace")
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Matsumoto, M. (2006)
The technological revolution in shipbuilding in the early twentieth century had a great impact on the military, industrial, commercial worlds. Matsumoto focuses on the …
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![Science and the Building of a New Japan]( "Science and the Building of a New Japan")
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Low, M. (2005)
This book highlights the importance of individuals in the shaping of postwar Japan by providing an historical account of how physicists constituted an influential elite. An …
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![Building a Modern Japan]( "Building a Modern Japan")
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Low, M. (Ed) (2005)
In the late Nineteenth-century, the Japanese embarked on a program of westernization in the hope of building a strong and modern nation. Science, technology and medicine played an …
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![Leprosy in Colonial South India]( "Leprosy in Colonial South India")
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Buckingham, J. (2002)
Leprosy is a neglected topic in the burgeoning field of the history of medicine and the colonized body. Leprosy in Colonial South India is not only a history of an intriguing and …
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