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"Both germ theory and the labs that put it into practice played active and highly visible roles in imperialism, and in India. So how did Indians respond to this form of cross-cultural medicine, embedded in and imbued with all the assumptions of imperialism—but also contested, scrutinized, and from the perspective of the nineteenth-century world, profoundly counter-intuitive? Temperate Seeds in Tropical Soils: Germ Theory in the Indian Medical Marketplace William Osier remarked in 1905 that The quarrels of doctors make a pretty chapter in the history of medicine." - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.)

"Yet a confluence of interests—pharmaceutical companies pushing drugs for diseases that they invented, professional imperialism, and the cultural stereotyping of aging women—has too much momentum to stop. This is not an example of bad science so much as an example of inappropriate and even dangerous medical practice. And this: We should be more than a bit suspicious of claims about pills that produce fountains of youth or any other miracle. COX-2 Inhibitors We begin our story long after the beginning." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"One could easily make the case that imperialism was invented within the 200 mm isohyet, from the time that Sargon the Great founded his multiethnic Akkadian empire around 2200 b.c.e. and steadily refined there by Hammurabi's Babylon and Sennacherib's Assyria. Even the Achaemenid empire of Xerxes, Darius, and Cyrus, whose home was in the Iranian highlands, established their administrative capital in Susa, within the lush lowlands of Mesopotamia." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.)

"After Mohandas Gandhi led the passive resistance movement of Indians against British imperialism and an independent India was established, internal strife between Pakistani and Muslim Indians broke out. Gandhi hoped people on both sides would respect his love for a free India and his efforts to make the dream come true. He further capitalized on the people's inability to distinguish between fasting and starvation by conducting personal protest fasts to inspire members of the two factions to restore peace in the new India." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.) "For example, some are willing to risk their lives in an unjust war rather than question the judgment of their political leaders, even though it may turn out that the war was initiated more for political imperialism and corporate interests than for "defending the nation's freedom." Suicide bombers give their lives for their causes, blindly believing they are fulfilling their destinies. Some people subject themselves to chemotherapy every day, fully trusting in the system, though the value and even safety of that treatment has now been proven highly questionable." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"As the eighteenth century progressed, however, European mercantilism—with its emphasis on creating (or commandeering) markets that could be controlled by a single nation-state—deepened into the beginnings of imperialism. In this climate, while local medical knowledge remained an important resource in practice, medicine as a representative aspect of culture (with technology and science) became, in Adas's memorable phrase, 'the measure of men'." - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.)

"In Europe, there has always been this protest over American imperialism.' Now Americans finally cannot believe that there might be what they think is 'EU imperialism' when it comes to setting those standards." Shortly after my meeting with Nicolas Thery, I had dinner with Robert Donkers, when he was back in Brussels for a visit to the home office. We met at Balthazar, a restaurant just down the block from the Berlaymont, a popular refuge for Eurocrats seeking a quiet place to cut deals amid the muted yellow walls and plush banquettes." - Mark Schapiro, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power (Get the book.)

"The most famous part of this Pacific territory was Xoconochco (a Nahuatl word corrupted by the Spaniards to Soconusco); this was later to be a prime target for Aztec military and commercial imperialism, since its cacao was of the highest quality (it had a reputation as the best in the world up until the 19th century). In pre-Conquest times, there were constant battles to control the cacao-growing areas of the Boca Costa, and these were the main military objective of the most famous Quiche Maya king, Quicab." - Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe, The True History of Chocolate (Get the book.)

"Now Americans finally cannot believe that there might be what they think is 'EU imperialism' when it comes to setting those standards." Shortly after my meeting with Nicolas Thery, I had dinner with Robert Donkers, when he was back in Brussels for a visit to the home office. We met at Balthazar, a restaurant just down the block from the Berlaymont, a popular refuge for Eurocrats seeking a quiet place to cut deals amid the muted yellow walls and plush banquettes." - Mark Schapiro, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power (Get the book.)

"Emotional well-being is about accepting our feelings as part of our humanity, neither denying emotions nor allowing for emotional imperialism (the takeover of one's entire being by one's emotions). Many therapists are more comfortable confronting a feeling-stuffer than a feeling-imperialist, and I have seen Yahoos whom previous therapists had treated like Yoohoos by assisting them to get even more in touch with their feelings. For the friends and family of these Yahoos, these therapists took a lovable pain-in-the-butt and created a nightmare." - Bruce E. Levine, Surviving America's Depression Epidemic: How to Find Morale, Energy, and Community in a World Gone Crazy (Get the book.)

"But to the extent that we try to claim an empirical status for what is essentially theological, we are engaging in a form of spiritual imperialism. This does not mean that we must pretend that all theologies say the same thing, or that we must simply agree to disagree?dialogue, debate, and empathetic exchanges among those who are seeking an integral spirituality, but who follow different paths, can be extremely valuable." - Steve McIntosh, Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution (Get the book.)

"In terms of medical imperialism (Mich, 1976), professional dominance (Freidson, 1970), and medical claims-making (Conrad and Schneider, 1992), physicians were the major figures in medicalization. This is changing. To be sure, the medical profession and physicians are still key players." - Peter Conrad, The Medicalization of Society: On the Transformation of Human Conditions into Treatable Disorders (Get the book.)

"Moreover, integral spirituality recognizes the empirical aspects of spiritual experience where it can, but also guards against belief system imperialism by respecting the partially conflicting theological explanations of the world s great wisdom traditions. And in evaluating the merits of different spiritual teachings, integral consciousness generally "knows them by their fruits." But this is not all that integral spirituality can do." - Steve McIntosh, Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution (Get the book.)

"Unencumbered by the old shibboleths over colonialism, imperialism, and other external adversaries, they can analyze issues with remarkable clarity and objectivity." Africa Unchained: The Blueprint for Africa's Future by George B. N. Ayittey (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005) Controversial and confrontational, Ayittey doesn't pull punches when describing his theories of what has gone wrong with Africa and what might be done to fix its problems." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"In 1989, American democratic imperialism triumphed unmistakably against its adversary?the Evil Empire. The Good Empire was the last one standing. God had shined his light on us and would never turn it off. Many people said many dumb things in the twentieth century. Usually, they were only mistakes or lies. When Neville Chamberlain said we would have "peace in our time," he was making a prediction. He was wrong. But if you hung everyone who guessed wrong about the future, the lampposts and traffic lights of Wall Street would be full of bodies." - William Bonner, Addison Wiggin, Empire of Debt: The Rise of an Epic Financial Crisis (Get the book.) "And this need for spending opened the door to an easy surrender to the elements most interested in militarism and its handmaiden, imperialism.8 Whenever the debts threatened to overwhelm the nation, inventive politicians found new enemies to distract the people and quiet opponents. "If the country had no natural enemy to be cultivated, then an enemy had to be invented,"9 wrote Flynn. Following the war with Turkey, World War I provided fresh diversions. But after the war, the debts mounted even higher. The prewar debt was 15 billion lire. When the war ended it was four times as much." - William Bonner, Addison Wiggin, Empire of Debt: The Rise of an Epic Financial Crisis (Get the book.)

"However, waging war to serve capitalistic enterprises smacks of imperialism, regardless of how it is painted by our politicians. Our foreign policy is not as altruistic as our leaders want us to believe. In 1795, James Madison said in Political Observations, "Of all the enemies of liberty, war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded because it compromises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes . . . known instruments for bringing many under the domination of the few." - David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.)

"Illich (1976) used the catchy but misleading phrase "medical imperialism." It soon became clear, however, that medicalization was more complicated than the annexation of new problems by doctors and the medical profession. In cases like alcoholism, medicalization was primarily accomplished by a social movement (Alcoholics Anonymous), and physicians were actually late adopters of the view of alcoholism as a disease (Conrad and Schneider, 1992)." - Peter Conrad, The Medicalization of Society: On the Transformation of Human Conditions into Treatable Disorders (Get the book.) "Far from medical imperialism, medicalization is a form of collective action. While physicians and the medical profession have historically been central to medicalization, doctors are not simply colonizing new problems or labeling feckless patients. Patients and other laypeople can be active collaborators in the medicalization of their problems or downright eager for medicalization (e.g., Becker and Nachtigall, 1992), although sympathetic professionals are usually needed for successful claims-making (Brown, 1995)." - Peter Conrad, The Medicalization of Society: On the Transformation of Human Conditions into Treatable Disorders (Get the book.) "Studies have shown that the interaction of lay and professional claims-makers rather than "medical imperialism" typically underlies the medicalization process. But the case of adult ADHD indicates that popularization may also play a part in diagnostic expansion. Media, including television, popular literature, and the Internet, spread the word quickly about illnesses and treatment. This popularization of symptoms and diagnoses can create new "markets" for disorders and empower previously unidentified individuals to seek treatment as new or expanded medical explanations become available." - Peter Conrad, The Medicalization of Society: On the Transformation of Human Conditions into Treatable Disorders (Get the book.)

"To claim to do so is to engage in a form of belief system imperialism that asserts an objective status for a particular theology. Wilber acknowledges that spiritual realities are not simply empirical in a pregiven sense—he explains that such realities can be accessed only by those whose internal development has reached a level that corresponds to these spiritual realities." - Steve McIntosh, Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution (Get the book.)

"Entry and settlement in a country by people born elsewhere. imperialism Acquisition by a government of other governments or territories, or of economic or cultural power over other nations or territories, often by force. Colonialism is a form of imperialism. intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) A missile with a long range (5000 miles or more) that carries nuclear warheads, and can be launched from the ground or from submarines. (See also MIRV." - E. D. Hirsch, The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy (Get the book.) "A phrase used to justify European imperialism in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; it is the title of a poem by Rud-yard Kipling. The phrase implies that imperialism was motivated by a high-minded desire of whites to uplift the less advanced black and brown peoples. Wilhelm ii (VIL-helm, WIL-helm) A German emperor, or kaiser, of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. After disagreements with Kaiser Wilhelm in the late nineteenth century, Otto von Bismarck resigned as head of the German government." - E. D. Hirsch, The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy (Get the book.)

"Elizabeth conducted campaigns in Ireland continuously for twenty years, following a policy of negative imperialism: Her aim was to prevent the country falling into the hands of Spain. The history of her Irish wars is complicated and is best explained in the classic work on the subject, Cyril Falls's Elizabeth's Irish Wars, Methuen, 1950. 13. The idea of "plantation" included not only crops and men to work them, but also the master who was granted the right of plantation. 14. The earls who fled at this time were Tyrone, who was harassed and old, accompanied by Tyrconnel and Rory O'Donnell." - Henry Hobhouse, Seeds of Change: Six Plants That Transformed Mankind (Get the book.) "Russia pursued a deliberate—sometimes open, sometimes covert—policy of imperialism in the north. The British and Americans were primarily interested in trade and the making of money, apart from their illusions that every Chinese was one of nature's Protestants. The French had the same illusion about Catholicism and the same greed about trade. The rivalry between merchants was almost exactly mirrored by the rivalry between Christian sects. The Chinese did not reveal their preferences, and acquired the reputation of being inscrutable, though perhaps they were only resentful and confused." - Henry Hobhouse, Seeds of Change: Six Plants That Transformed Mankind (Get the book.)

"National self-determination is opposed to colonialism and imperialism. {See Fourteen Points.) nationalism The strong belief that the interests of a particular nation-state are of primary importance. Also, the belief that a people who share a common language, history, and culture should constitute an independent nation, free of foreign domination. Nationalism is opposed to colonialism and imperialism. nationalization The taking over of private property by a national government. NATO (nay-toh) See North Atlantic Treaty Organization." - E. D. Hirsch, Joseph F. Kett, James Trefil, The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know (Get the book.) "Capitalism, communism, and socialism are usually called ideologies. imperialism Acquisition by a government of other governments or territories, or of economic or cultural power over other nations or territories, often by force. Colonialism is a form of imperialism. intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) (buh-Lis-tik) A missile with a long range (5000 miles or more) that carries nuclear warheads, and can be launched from the ground or from submarines. {See also MIRV." - James Trefil, Joseph F. Kett, and E. D. Hirsch, The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know (Get the book.) "National self-determination is opposed to colonialism and imperialism. {See Fourteen Points.) nationalism The strong belief that the interests of a particular nation-state are of primary importance. Also, the belief that a people who share a common language, history, and culture should constitute an independent nation, free of foreign domination. Nationalism is opposed to colonialism and imperialism. nationalization The taking over of private property by a national government. NATO (nay-toh) See North Atlantic Treaty Organization." - James Trefil, Joseph F. Kett, and E. D. Hirsch, The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know (Get the book.) "A phrase used to justify European imperialism in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; it is the title of a poem by Rud-yard Kipling. The phrase implies that imperialism was motivated by a high-minded desire of whites to uplift the less advanced black and brown peoples. Wilhelm ii (viL-helm, wiL-helm) A German emperor, or kaiser, of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. After disagreements with Kaiser Wilhelm in the late nineteenth century, Otto von Bismarck resigned as head of the German government." - James Trefil, Joseph F. Kett, and E. D. Hirsch, The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know (Get the book.)

"Missionaries were the velvet glove of imperialism, frequently backed up by the mailed fist. Nevertheless, the missionary effort, promoted through schools and medical programs, was still a very transparent attempt to support European and American interests. As J. A. Hobson, an English economist, noted at the time, "Imperialism in the Far East is stripped nearly bare of all motives and methods save those of distinctively commercial origin." - E. Richard Brown, Rockefeller Medicine Men: Medicine and Capitalism in America (Get the book.)

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