Download or read book Western Medicine As Contested Knowledge written by Andrew Cunningham and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1997-11-15 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the range of non-Western responses to Western medicine across the spectrum of Western imperialist influence, from Japan in the East to the Navajo of North America in the West. The text aims to make a contribution to the debate about the relationship between knowledge and.