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Disease, medicine, and empire: perspectives on Western medicine and the experience of European expansion

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History of Medicine and Tropical Health History of Science and Medicine History of Science and Natural History

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Focusing on colonial medicine in the British Empire, these distinguished social and medical historians illustrate how medicine constituted an imperializing cultural force. This book should be of interest to students, lecturers and researchers in political, economic, social and medical history, medicine, public health, medical sociology.

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