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Tizian Zumthurm - Practicing Biomedicine at the Albert Schweitzer Hospital 1913-1965, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

Practicing Biomedicine at the Albert Schweitzer Hospital 1913-1965

Ideas and Improvisations

Av Tizian Zumthurm

Del 103 i serien Clio Medica

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Tizian Zumthurm uses the extraordinary hospital of an extraordinary man to produce novel insights into the ordinary practice of biomedicine in colonial Central Africa. His investigation of therapeutic routines in surgery, maternity care, psychiatry, and the treatment of dysentery and leprosy reveals the incoherent nature of biomedicine and not just in Africa. Reading rich archival sources against and along the grain, the author combines concepts that appeal to those interested in the history of medicine and colonialism. Through the microcosm of the hospital, Zumthurm brings to light the social worlds of Gabonese patients as well as European staff. By refusing to easily categorize colonial medical encounters, the book challenges our understanding of biomedicine as solely domineering or interactive.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2020-08-13
  • Mått: 155 x 235 x 24 mm
  • Vikt: 601 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Serie: Clio Medica
  • Antal sidor: 308
  • Förlag: Brill
  • ISBN: 9789004402676
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Tizian Zumthurm has defended his Ph.D in February 2018 at the Institute for the History of Medicine at the University of Bern. He is a historian of medicine and Africa, interested in the everyday tensions and connections between theories and practices, between ideas and improvisations.

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“Its clear grasp of contemporary debates around agency and biopolitics, the emergence of global health, and the relation of the local and the global, will make it likely for the book or individual chapters to be productively incorporated into medical history courses.” ---- Danelle van Zyl-Hermann, in: Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Geschichte (2022) 72 (2): pp.320-321

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