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Histories of the Normal and the Abnormal
Social and Cultural Histories of Norms and Normativity
Series: Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine
This fascinating volume tackles the history of the terms 'normal' and 'abnormal'. Originally meaning 'as occurring in nature', normality has taken on significant cultural gravitas and this book recognizes and explores that fact. The essays engage with the concepts of the normal and the...
Published October 18th 2012 by Routledge
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India's Princely States
People, Princes and Colonialism
Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
This is an invaluable work looking into new areas relating to India's princely states. Based on an abundance of rarely used archival material, the book sheds new light on diversities related to the princely states such as health policies and practices, gender issues, the states’ military...
Published April 7th 2010 by Routledge
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Plural Medicine, Tradition and Modernity, 1800-2000
Series: Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine
Research into 'colonial' or 'imperial' medicine has made considerable progress in recent years, whilst the study of what is usually referred to as 'indigenous' or 'folk' medicine in colonized societies has received much less attention. This book redresses the balance by bringing together current...
Published February 6th 2002 by Routledge
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Race, Science and Medicine, 1700-1960
Series: Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine
Considering cases from Europe to India, this collection brings together current critical research into the role played by racial issues in the production of medical knowledge. Confronting such controversial themes as colonialism and medicine, the origins of racial thinking and health and migration,...
Published June 9th 1999 by Routledge