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