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Why publish a collection of essays on ‘science, medicine and cultural imperialism’? Because although economic and political imperialism have been studied intensively, cultural imperialism has not, and arguably science and medicine provide a good opportunity to do so.
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W. D. Smith, European Imperialism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Chicago: Nelson-Hall, 1982) p. 2.
E. J. Hobsbawm, The Age of Empire 1875–1914 (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1987) pp. 69–73;
H.-U. Wehler (ed.) Imperialismus, fourth ed. (Konigstein: Athenaum/Droste, 1979) pp. 11–36, here 26.
L. Pyenson, ‘Pure Learning and Political Economy: Science and European Expansion in the Age of Imperialism’, in R. P. W. Visser, H. J. M. Bos, L. C. Palm, and H. A. M. Snelders (eds), New Trends in the History of Science (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1989), pp. 209–78, here 211, 274–78;
also see his Cultural Imperialism and Exact Sciences (New York: Peter Lang, 1985);
Empire of Reason. Exact Sciences in Indonesia 1840–1940 (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1989) and his forthcoming book on the exact sciences and French cultural imperialism.
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Meade, T., Walker, M. (1991). Introduction. In: Meade, T., Walker, M. (eds) Science, Medicine and Cultural Imperialism. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-12445-9_1
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