Roberta E Bivins
Biographic Data
| ID | 7225910 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roberta E Bivins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roberta E |
| FAMILY NAME | Bivins |
| SIGNATURE | BIVINS R E |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The English Disease" or "Asian Rickets"? Medical Responses to Postcolonial Immigration
Do the former colonizing powers, like their former colonies, have "postcolonial medicine," and if so, where does it take place, who practices it, and upon whom? How has British medicine in particular responded to the huge cultural shifts represented by the rise of the New Commonwealth and associated postcolonial immigration? I address these questions through a case study of the medical and political responses to vitamin D deficiency among Britain…
Colonial Pathologies
Reviewed by: Colonial Pathologies: American Tropical Medicine, Race, and Hygiene in the Philippines, and: The Cultivation of Whiteness: Science, Health, and Racial Destiny in Australia Roberta Bivins (bio) Colonial Pathologies: American Tropical Medicine, Race, and Hygiene in the Philippines. By Warwick Anderson . Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2006. Pp ix+355. $23.95. The Cultivation of Whiteness: Science, Health, and Racial Destiny in Aus…
Chinese Medicine in Contemporary China
Volker Scheid offers a rich, clear, and detailed account of contemporary Chinese medicine as intrinsically pluralistic and dispersed, dynamic and local. Drawing upon eighteen months of field research, ethnographic observation of more than four thousand clinical encounters, and his own experience as a practitioner of Chinese medicine, Scheid argues for an interpretive stance that takes pluralism in medicine as an object of research in its own righ…
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Chinese Medicine in Contemporary China
Volker Scheid offers a rich, clear, and detailed account of contemporary Chinese medicine as intrinsically pluralistic and dispersed, dynamic and local. Drawing upon eighteen months of field research, ethnographic observation of more than four thousand clinical encounters, and his own experience as a practitioner of Chinese medicine, Scheid argues for an interpretive stance that takes pluralism in medicine as an object of research in its own righ…
The English Disease" or "Asian Rickets"? Medical Responses to Postcolonial Immigration
Do the former colonizing powers, like their former colonies, have "postcolonial medicine," and if so, where does it take place, who practices it, and upon whom? How has British medicine in particular responded to the huge cultural shifts represented by the rise of the New Commonwealth and associated postcolonial immigration? I address these questions through a case study of the medical and political responses to vitamin D deficiency among Britain…
Colonial Pathologies
Reviewed by: Colonial Pathologies: American Tropical Medicine, Race, and Hygiene in the Philippines, and: The Cultivation of Whiteness: Science, Health, and Racial Destiny in Australia Roberta Bivins (bio) Colonial Pathologies: American Tropical Medicine, Race, and Hygiene in the Philippines. By Warwick Anderson . Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2006. Pp ix+355. $23.95. The Cultivation of Whiteness: Science, Health, and Racial Destiny in Aus…
History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Colonialism (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Race (biology) (2 works) · Anthropology (1 work)