Author: United Nations Library (Geneva, Switzerland)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Catalogue Des Publications en Série
Author: United Nations Library (Geneva, Switzerland)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
World Happiness Report 2018
Author: John F. Helliwell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780996851367
Category : Happiness
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
The World Happiness Report reviews levels of happiness across developed and developing nations, and presents ranking tables on national and regional happiness.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780996851367
Category : Happiness
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
The World Happiness Report reviews levels of happiness across developed and developing nations, and presents ranking tables on national and regional happiness.
Index of NLM Serial Titles
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1516
Book Description
A keyword listing of serial titles currently received by the National Library of Medicine.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1516
Book Description
A keyword listing of serial titles currently received by the National Library of Medicine.
Rapport annuel - Conseil économique du Canada
Author: Economic Council of Canada
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
Interlopers of Empire
Author: Andrew Arsan
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199333386
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
First comprehensive history of Lebanese communities of Francophone West Africa in the colonial period.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199333386
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
First comprehensive history of Lebanese communities of Francophone West Africa in the colonial period.
The Canada Gazette
Author: Canada
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 1332
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 1332
Book Description
Missionaries and the Colonial State
Author: David Whitehouse
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000637964
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Catholic and Protestant missionaries followed their own, competing agendas rather than those of the colonial state. This volume unravels these agendas and challenges received wisdom on the histories of Rwanda and Burundi, as well as the colonial relationship between state and mission. The archives of the White Fathers Catholic missionary order in Rome and Paris are read alongside primary sources produced by the British Protestant Church Missionary Society to analyse their impact between 1900 and 1972 in Rwanda and Burundi. The colonial state was weaker than often assumed, and permeable by external radical influences. Denominational competition between Catholic and Protestant missionaries was a key motor of this radicalism. The colonial state in both kingdoms was a weak, reactive agent rather than a structuring form of power. This volume shows that missionaries were more committed and influential actors, but their inability to manage the mass demand for the education that they sought and delivered finally undermined the achievement of their aims. Missionaries and the Colonial State is a resource for historians of Christianity, Belgian Africa specialists, and scholars of colonialism.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000637964
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Catholic and Protestant missionaries followed their own, competing agendas rather than those of the colonial state. This volume unravels these agendas and challenges received wisdom on the histories of Rwanda and Burundi, as well as the colonial relationship between state and mission. The archives of the White Fathers Catholic missionary order in Rome and Paris are read alongside primary sources produced by the British Protestant Church Missionary Society to analyse their impact between 1900 and 1972 in Rwanda and Burundi. The colonial state was weaker than often assumed, and permeable by external radical influences. Denominational competition between Catholic and Protestant missionaries was a key motor of this radicalism. The colonial state in both kingdoms was a weak, reactive agent rather than a structuring form of power. This volume shows that missionaries were more committed and influential actors, but their inability to manage the mass demand for the education that they sought and delivered finally undermined the achievement of their aims. Missionaries and the Colonial State is a resource for historians of Christianity, Belgian Africa specialists, and scholars of colonialism.
Beyond the Asylum
Author: Claire E. Edington
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 150173394X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
This book is a must-read for any specialist in the history of colonial and post-colonial psychiatry, as well as a fantastic case study for those interested in the social history of European colonialism more generally.― Choice Claire Edington's fascinating look at psychiatric care in French colonial Vietnam challenges our notion of the colonial asylum as a closed setting, run by experts with unchallenged authority, from which patients rarely left. She shows instead a society in which Vietnamese communities and families actively participated in psychiatric decision-making in ways that strengthened the power of the colonial state, even as they also forced French experts to engage with local understandings of, and practices around, insanity. Beyond the Asylum reveals how psychiatrists, colonial authorities, and the Vietnamese public debated both what it meant to be abnormal, as well as normal enough to return to social life, throughout the early twentieth century. Straddling the fields of colonial history, Southeast Asian studies and the history of medicine, Beyond the Asylum shifts our perspective from the institution itself to its relationship with the world beyond its walls. This world included not only psychiatrists and their patients, but also prosecutors and parents, neighbors and spirit mediums, as well as the police and local press. How each group interacted with the mentally ill, with each other, and sometimes in opposition to each other, helped decide the fate of those both in and outside the colonial asylum.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 150173394X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
This book is a must-read for any specialist in the history of colonial and post-colonial psychiatry, as well as a fantastic case study for those interested in the social history of European colonialism more generally.― Choice Claire Edington's fascinating look at psychiatric care in French colonial Vietnam challenges our notion of the colonial asylum as a closed setting, run by experts with unchallenged authority, from which patients rarely left. She shows instead a society in which Vietnamese communities and families actively participated in psychiatric decision-making in ways that strengthened the power of the colonial state, even as they also forced French experts to engage with local understandings of, and practices around, insanity. Beyond the Asylum reveals how psychiatrists, colonial authorities, and the Vietnamese public debated both what it meant to be abnormal, as well as normal enough to return to social life, throughout the early twentieth century. Straddling the fields of colonial history, Southeast Asian studies and the history of medicine, Beyond the Asylum shifts our perspective from the institution itself to its relationship with the world beyond its walls. This world included not only psychiatrists and their patients, but also prosecutors and parents, neighbors and spirit mediums, as well as the police and local press. How each group interacted with the mentally ill, with each other, and sometimes in opposition to each other, helped decide the fate of those both in and outside the colonial asylum.
The History of Blood Transfusion in Sub-Saharan Africa
Author: William H. Schneider
Publisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0821444530
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
This first extensive study of the practice of blood transfusion in Africa traces the history of one of the most important therapies in modern medicine from the period of colonial rule to independence and the AIDS epidemic. The introduction of transfusion held great promise for improving health, but like most new medical practices, transfusion needed to be adapted to the needs of sub-Saharan Africa, for which there was no analogous treatment in traditional African medicine. This otherwise beneficent medical procedure also created a “royal road” for microorganisms, and thus played a central part in the emergence of human immune viruses in epidemic form. As with more developed health care systems, blood transfusion practices in sub-Saharan Africa were incapable of detecting the emergence of HIV. As a result, given the wide use of transfusion, it became an important pathway for the initial spread of AIDS. Yet African health officials were not without means to understand and respond to the new danger, thanks to forty years of experience and a framework of appreciating long-standing health risks. The response to this risk, detailed in this book, yields important insight into the history of epidemics and HIV/AIDS. Drawing on research from colonial-era governments, European Red Cross societies, independent African governments, and directly from health officers themselves, this book is the only historical study of the practice of blood transfusion in Africa.
Publisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0821444530
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
This first extensive study of the practice of blood transfusion in Africa traces the history of one of the most important therapies in modern medicine from the period of colonial rule to independence and the AIDS epidemic. The introduction of transfusion held great promise for improving health, but like most new medical practices, transfusion needed to be adapted to the needs of sub-Saharan Africa, for which there was no analogous treatment in traditional African medicine. This otherwise beneficent medical procedure also created a “royal road” for microorganisms, and thus played a central part in the emergence of human immune viruses in epidemic form. As with more developed health care systems, blood transfusion practices in sub-Saharan Africa were incapable of detecting the emergence of HIV. As a result, given the wide use of transfusion, it became an important pathway for the initial spread of AIDS. Yet African health officials were not without means to understand and respond to the new danger, thanks to forty years of experience and a framework of appreciating long-standing health risks. The response to this risk, detailed in this book, yields important insight into the history of epidemics and HIV/AIDS. Drawing on research from colonial-era governments, European Red Cross societies, independent African governments, and directly from health officers themselves, this book is the only historical study of the practice of blood transfusion in Africa.
Misreading the African Landscape
Author: James Fairhead
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521564991
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
An intriguing 1996 study showing how Africans enrich their land, while scientists believe they damage it.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521564991
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
An intriguing 1996 study showing how Africans enrich their land, while scientists believe they damage it.