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

Interrelated histories of colonial medicine, market and family reveal how Western homeopathy was translated and made vernacular in colonial India.

Examining the emerging figure of the woman doctor and her relationship to empire in Victorian culture, Narin Hassan traces both amateur and professional 'doctor

French-colonial Tunisia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries witnessed shifting concepts of identity, including varying theories of ethnic essen