تلخیص
This paper examines the colonial project of social control of the
Pashtun body as seen through Foucauldian framework of biopower.
This paper initiates debate into colonial health politics of NWFP and
explores the biopolitical logic as to how the Pasthun subjectivities as
medicalizable objects were constituted within the colonial
missionary medicine discourses. It examines the ontological
consequences of such constructions. It further aims to explore the
co-constitution of colonial agents and the authority of the
missionary doctor over the body. This paper delves into the myriad
of strategies and sites of medical intervention, as hospital, medical
camp, home, school, body, culture, race and gender. It takes up indepth analysis of the works of Dr. Pennell i.e. Mission Hospital
Bannu and Life among Wild Tribes. The study proposes that the
relations of colonial power with the Pashtun body as embedded in
the medical missionary discourse were biopolitical in nature.
Tasleem Malik, Faiz Ali. (2020) Colonial Bio-Politics and Medical Mission in NWFP: A Case of Dr. Pennell of Bannu Medical Mission, , Volume-14, Issue-3.
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