Overview
- 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)
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