This volume shows how the study of medicine can provide new insights into colonial identity, and the possibility of accomodating multiple perspectives on identi
Over the last century, identity as an avenue of inquiry has become both an academic growth industry and a problematic category of historical analysis. This volu
Examining the emerging figure of the woman doctor and her relationship to empire in Victorian culture, Narin Hassan traces both amateur and professional 'doctor
"Kelly Wisecup examines how European settlers, Native Americans, and New World Africans communicated medical knowledge in early America, and how the colonists r