Crossing colonial historiographies : histories of colonial and indigenous medicines in transnational perspective / edited by Anne Digby, Waltraud Ernst, and Projit B. Muhkarji.

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, [2010], ©2010.

xxii, 249 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : Crossing Historiographies, Connecting Histories and Their Historians / Anne Digby, Waltraud Ernst and Projit B. Muhkarji.-- Interweaving Substance Trajectories: Tiryaq, Circulation and Therapeutic Transformation in the Nineteenth Century / Guy Attewell.-- Winter Worm, Summer Grass: Cordyceps, Colonial Chinese Medicine, and the Formation of Historical Objects / Carla Nappi.-- Researching Amok in Malaysia / Thomas Williamson.-- Russian Imperial Medicine: The Case of the Kazakh Steppe / Anna Afanasyeva.-- Multiple Colonizations: State Formation, Public Health and the Yucatec Maya, 1891-1960 / David Sowell.-- Medical Pluralism as a Historical Phenomenon: A Regional and Multi-Level Approach to Health Care in German, British and Independent East Africa / Walter Bruchhausen.-- Crossing Colonial and Medical Boundaries: Plural Medicine on Java, 1850-1910 / Liesbeth Hesselink.-- Towards a Cultural History of Medicine(s) in Colonial Central Africa / Markku Hokkanen.-- Crossing Colonies and Empires: The Health Services of the Diamond Company of Angola / Jorge Varanda.-- Medicine, Colonial Order and Local Action in Goa / Cristiana Bastos.-- Loosening the Bonds of Historical Prejudice: Traditional Practitioners as Agents of Reconciliation and Change in Contemporary South Africa / Jo Wreford.