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  title info:
    title: Healers and Empires in Global History
    sub title: Healing as Hybrid and Contested Knowledge
  name:
    name part: Hokkanen, Markku.
    role:
      role term: editor.
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  name:
    name part: Kananoja, Kalle.
    role:
      role term: editor.
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      role term: edt
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2019
    edition: 1st ed. 2019.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XI, 279 p. 4 illus., 3 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: This book explores cross-cultural medical encounters involving non-Western healers in a variety of imperial contexts from the Arctic, Asia, Africa, Americas and the Caribbean. It highlights contests over healing, knowledge and medicines through the frameworks of hybridisation and pluralism. The intertwined histories of medicine, empire and early globalisation influenced the ways in which millions of people encountered and experienced suffering, healing and death. In an increasingly global search for therapeutics and localised definition of acceptable healing, networks and mobilities played key roles. Healers' engagements with politics, law and religion underline the close connections between healing, power and authority. They also reveal the agency of healers, sufferers and local societies, in encounters with modernising imperial states, medical science and commercialisation. The book questions and complements the traditional narratives of triumphant biomedicine, reminding readers that 'traditional' medical cultures and practitioners did not often disappear, but rather underwent major changes in the increasingly interconnected world.
  table of contents: 1. Introduction - Markku Hokkanen and Kalle Kananoja -- 2. Traditional Arctic Healing and Medicines of Modernisation in Finnish and Swedish Lapland - Ritva Kylli -- 3. Reports on Encounters of Medical Cultures: Two Physicians in Sweden's Medical and Colonial Connections in the Late Eighteenth Century - Saara-Maija Kontturi -- 4. Tibetan Medicine and Buddhism in the Soviet Union: Research, Repression, and Revival, 1922-1991 - Ivan Sablin -- 5. Contestation, Redefinition and Healers' Tactics in Colonial Southern Africa - Markku Hokkanen -- 6. Complicating Hybrid Medical Practices in the Tropics: Examining the Case of São Tomé and Príncipe, 1850-1926 - Rafaela Jobbitt -- 7. Doctors, Healers and Charlatans in Brazil: A Short History of Ideas, c. 1650-1950 - Kalle Kananoja -- 8. Risking Obeah: A Spiritual Infrastructure in the Danish West Indies, c. 1800-1848 - Gunvor Simonsen -- 9. Toward a Typology of Nineteenth-Century Lakota Magico-Medico-Ritual Specialists - David C. Posthumus.
  note: edited by Markku Hokkanen, Kalle Kananoja.
  subject:
    topic: Imperialism
  subject:
    topic: World history
  subject:
    topic: Medicine-History
  subject:
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Imperialism and Colonialism
  subject:
    topic: World History, Global and Transnational History
  subject:
    topic: History of Medicine
  subject:
    topic: History of Science
  classification: JV61-152
  classification: 325.3
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series
  identifier: 9783030154912
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15491-2
  record info:
    record creation date: 190415
    record change date: 20191027033625.0
    record identifier: 978-3-030-15491-2