From an Agency of Cultural Destruction to an Agency of Public Health
نام عام مواد
[Article]
نام نخستين پديدآور
Walima T. Kalusa
وضعیت نشر و پخش و غیره
محل نشرو پخش و غیره
Leiden
نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره
Brill
یادداشتهای مربوط به خلاصه یا چکیده
متن يادداشت
Most medical histories maintain that missionary doctors in imperial Africa were agents of Western cultural imperialism. This scholarship, informed by the writings of Michel Foucault, projects mission-based healers as agents of imperial power who played a major role in emasculating African therapeutic systems and in reinforcing colonial hegemony. This scholarship partly derives its support from the fact that across Africa, mission doctors and nurses cast themselves as cultural conquistadors whose ultimate goal was no less to undermine local medical culture than to supplant it with biomedical comprehensions of disease, healing and medicine. Convincing as this scholarship may be, it over-simplistically locks Christian medical missions in a distant/static past, erroneously portraying them as monolithic entities, and largely obscuring how missionary discourses and praxis surrounding disease and medicine metamorphosed in the aftermath of colonialism. This paper may be read as a corrective to such scholarship. The paper insists that, in conformity with the expectations and demands of the post-colonial regime in Zambia, Catholic medics reconfigured their medical discourse and practice. Consequently, their medicine lost its imperial/hegemonic pretensions and became an agency through which the newly-independent Zambian state implemented its public health reforms.
مجموعه
تاريخ نشر
2014
توصيف ظاهري
219-238
عنوان
Social Sciences and Missions
شماره جلد
27/2-3
شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها
1874-8945
اصطلاحهای موضوعی کنترل نشده
اصطلاح موضوعی
biomedical power
اصطلاح موضوعی
biopouvoir
اصطلاح موضوعی
Catholic medicine
اصطلاح موضوعی
cultural imperialism
اصطلاح موضوعی
History of Religion
اصطلاح موضوعی
impérialisme culturel
اصطلاح موضوعی
médecine catholique
اصطلاح موضوعی
medical enthusiasts
اصطلاح موضوعی
public health
اصطلاح موضوعی
Religion & Society
اصطلاح موضوعی
Religious Studies
اصطلاح موضوعی
santé publique
اصطلاح موضوعی
Social Sciences
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