Curative powers : medicine and empire in Stalin's Central Asia

Curative powers : medicine and empire in Stalin's Central Asia /

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.

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Author: Michaels, Paula A., 1966- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003
Series:Series in Russian and East European studies.
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Subjects:
Social medicine > Kazakhstan.
Medical policy > Kazakhstan.
Health Policy > Kazakhstan > History.
Political Systems > Kazakhstan > History.
Sociology, Medical > Kazakhstan > History.
Sociology, Medical > history
Health Policy > history
Political Systems > history
Kazakhstan > Cultural policy.
Kazakhstan
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
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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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xvii, 239 pages) : illustrations.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-234) and index.
ISBN:9780822970743
0822970740
Language:English.
Reproduction Note:Electronic reproduction.
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.

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