Colonial medicine, a variant of Western medicine and a reflection of colonialism in the field of medicine, became one of the important ways of colonial expansion for Western countries. The medicine on a colony is a mixture of native medicine and colonial medicine. This article offers a study of Beverly Swerling's The City of Dreams from the perspective of postcolonial medicine with a focus on the developmental history of the surgical medicine and explores how, through such strategies as hybrid, imitation, and opposition, the characters in the n...
