Healers and Empires in Global History
Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2019
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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. They also reveal the agency of healers, sufferers and local societies, in encounters with modernising imperial states, medical science and commercialisation.
- ISBN-13
- 9783030154905
- ISBN-10
- 3030154904
- Publisher
- Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- Year
- 2019
- Publication date
- 2019-05-02
- Pages
- 279
- Dimensions
- 155x219x29
- Weight
- 588