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Explores how the hybridisation of medicine and the challenges between different forms of healing are recurrent features in the world’s medical cultures
Chapters cover understudied regions in the history of medicine, including the Arctic, Africa, the Caribbean, the Soviet Union and the Americas
Focuses on indigenous healers and examines how medical knowledge and materials were contested in various cultural settings
Part of the book series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies (CIPCSS)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of History, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
Markku Hokkanen
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African Studies, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Kalle Kananoja
About the editors
Kalle Kananoja is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He has published articles on precolonial Atlantic African and colonial Brazilian history.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Healers and Empires in Global History
Book Subtitle: Healing as Hybrid and Contested Knowledge
Editors: Markku Hokkanen, Kalle Kananoja
Series Title: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15491-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-15490-5Published: 02 May 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-15491-2Published: 15 April 2019
Series ISSN: 2635-1633
Series E-ISSN: 2635-1641
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 279
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: Imperialism and Colonialism, World History, Global and Transnational History, History of Medicine, History of Science