Chapter 1 Introduction: Contested Ventures: Biomedicine in Colonial Contexts Chapter 2 1. Colonizing Mother Egypt, Domesticating Egyptian Mothers Chapter 3 2. "Defying" Medical Autonomy: Indigenous Elites and Medicine in Colonial India Chapter 4 3. Medical Knowledge and Professional Power: From the Luso-Brazilian Context to Imperial Brazil Chapter 5 4. The Invincible Generals: Disease and the Fight for Empire in Cuba, 1868 to 1898 Chapter 6 5. The White Man in the Bedroom: Contraception and Resistance on Commercial Farms in Colonial Rhodesia Chapter 7 6. Translations and Transformations: Toward Creating New Men in Early Twentieth-Century China Chapter 8 7. Rejected or Elected? Processes of Therapeutic Selection and Colonial Medicines in French Vietnam, 1905-39 Chapter 9 8.

Articulating Medical Ideas: Medicine and Medical Education in New Spain Chapter 10 9. Disease, Doctors, and De beers Capitalists: Smallpox and Scandal in Colonial South Africa during the Mineral Revolution and British Imperialism, c. 1882-1883 Chapter 11 10. Submitting to Surgery in the 1890s: Four Vignettes.