Healers and Empires in Global History Healing as Hybrid and Contested Knowledge /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Hokkanen, Markku (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Kananoja, Kalle (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series
• Subjects: Imperialism.; World history.; Medicine-History.; History.; Imperialism and Colonialism.; World History, Global and Transnational History.; History of Medicine.; History of Science.

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 inte...