Curative Powers: Medicine And Empire In Stalin's Central Asia (Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies)
by Paula Michaels
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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.Tags
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Paula A. Michaels, assistant professor of history at the University of Iowa, is a recipient of the Louis Dupree Prize for Central Asian Research
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- 362.1 — Society, government, & culture Social problems and social services Social Welfare People with physical illnesses
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- RA418.3 .K3 .M53 — Medicine Public aspects of medicine Public aspects of medicine Medicine and the state Medicine and society. Social medicine. Medical sociology
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