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Curative powers : medicine and empire in Stalin's Central Asia / Paula A. Michaels.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Michaels, Paula A., 1966- author.
- Series:
- Series in Russian and East European studies.
- Pitt series in Russian and East European studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social medicine--Kazakhstan.
- Social medicine.
- Medical policy--Kazakhstan.
- Medical policy.
- Kazakhstan--Cultural policy.
- Kazakhstan.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (260 pages) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2003]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This work reconstructs how the Soviet government used medicine and public health policy to transform the society, politics and culture of its outlying regions - Kazakhstan in particular. It is an archival and ethnographical research revealing the Soviets' colonial dominion of the Kazakhs.
- Contents:
- Discourse
- Kazakh Medicine and Russian Colonialism, 1861-1928
- A Brief History of Kazakhstan
- Kazakh Ethnomedical Practices
- Russian Orientalism and Kazakh Medicine
- The Roots of Biomedicine in Kazakhstan
- Medical Propaganda and Cultural Revolution
- Origins and Methods of Biomedical Propaganda
- The Construction of Kazakh Culture in Biomedical Propaganda
- The Doctor-Hero in Biomedical Propaganda
- Limits and Impact of the Biomedical Drive
- Institution-Building
- Medical Education and the Formation of a New Elite
- The Expansion of Biomedical Education
- Nativization and Medical Education
- Interethnic Relations and Political Persecution
- The Politics of the Medical Curriculum
- Building Socialism: Medical Cadres in the Field
- Facility Expansion and Cadre Distribution
- Obstacles to Effective Health Care
- The Impact of Medical and Public Health Services
- Practice
- The Politics of Women's Health Care
- Kazakh Women's Everyday Life and Bolshevik Visions of Emancipation
- Kazakh Women and the OMM: Clinical Practice and Beyond
- Abortion and Pronatalism
- Wartime and Postwar OMM Services
- Medical and Public Health Policy toward the Kazakh Nomads
- "Islands in the Steppe": Red Yurts and Communist Policy
- Collectivization and Sedentarization of the Nomads
- Kazakhstan's Nomads and Medical Care after Collectivization.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-234) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780822970743
- 0822970740
- OCLC:
- 1316532554
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