Dis-Ease in the Colonial State: Medicine, Society, and Social Change Among the Abanyole of Western Kenya

by Osaak A. Olumwullah

Olumwullah examines disease, biomedicine, and processes of social change among the AbaNyole of Western Kenya and analyzes the introduction and use of biomedicine as a cultural tool of domination by British colonizers and the AbaNyole's reaction to this therapeutic tradition and its technologies. He argues that biomedicine is a tool that the colonizers used to think about the colonized. Through an examination of ideas about order and disorder in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313320039
• ISBN13: 9780313320033
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.5"