Title:	Health, State and Sociey in Kenya
Authors:	George Oduor, Ndege Toyin Falola,
Keywords:	Public health—Kenya—History
Issue Date:	2001
Publisher:	University of Rochester
Description:	In recent years, historians of colonial medicine have provided the analytical framework for understanding the role, authority, and influence of colonial policies on biomedicine and the changing relationship with the people these policies were meant to serve. In addition, historians have brought into the orbit of analysis the tension between the “medical occupier” and the “colonized.” The theme of tension has formed a primary motif in the new social history of the interaction and change that accompanied the way Western biomedicine was received in the colonial context. Indeed, a host of scholars have correctly pointed to the limitations of imperial authorities, as well as biomedicine, as a factor in acculturating the masses to the Western biomedical order. Building on this theoretical foundation, this study discusses how Africans perceived and critiqued Western biomedicine and yet continued to embrace and institutionalize its presence in Kenya
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/9345
ISBN:	1-58046-099-2
Appears in Collections:	African Studies

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