In addition to shouldering the blame for the increasing incidence of venereal disease among
sailors and soldiers, prostitutes throughout the British Empire also bore the burden of the …

The postcolonial study of science and technology suggests a means of writing a 'history of
the present', of coming to terms with the turbulence and uncertainty of contemporary global …

Public health in the United States and Western Europe has long been allied with national
security and international commerce. During the 1990s, American virologists and public …

Behind the euphoric narrative of India as an emerging world power lies a complex and
evolving relationship between science and religion. Evoking the rich mythology of …

In the middle decades of the twentieth century, Asia was at the heart of international efforts to
create a new utopia: a world free from disease. This is a political, intellectual and social …

From Popular Medicine to Medical Populism presents the history of medical practice in
Costa Rica from the late colonial era—when none of the fifty thousand inhabitants had …

Abstract Building upon the World Health Organization's recent publication WHO Strategy for
Traditional Medicine (WHO 2002), this paper examines the historical position of “traditional …

The health humanities is a rapidly rising field, advancing an inclusive, democratizing,
activist, applied, critical, and culturally diverse approach to delivering health and well-being …

This book explores the ways in which Ayurveda, the oldest medical tradition of the Indian
subcontinent, was transformed from a composite of'ancient'medical knowledge into …

In The Colonial Politics of Global Health, Jessica Lynne Pearson explores the collision
between imperial and international visions of health and development in French Africa as …