Medical Encounters in British India

Medical Encounters in British India
Author: Deepak Kumar
Publisher: OUP India
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013-01-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780198089216

This volume explores the nature of interactions between the East and the West in the field of medicine.It focuses on examples from India's medical tradition and the challenges it faced when modern medical system entered the country as part of the British colonial rule.

Vernacular Medicine in Colonial India

Vernacular Medicine in Colonial India
Author: Shinjini Das
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 307
Release: 2019-03-14
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1108420621

Interrelated histories of colonial medicine, market and family reveal how Western homeopathy was translated and made vernacular in colonial India.

Colonizing the Body

Colonizing the Body
Author: David Arnold
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 370
Release: 1993-08-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780520082953

In this innovative analysis of medicine and disease in colonial India, David Arnold explores the vital role of the state in medical and public health activities, arguing that Western medicine became a critical battleground between the colonized and the colonizers. Focusing on three major epidemic diseases—smallpox, cholera, and plague—Arnold analyzes the impact of medical interventionism. He demonstrates that Western medicine as practiced in India was not simply transferred from West to East, but was also fashioned in response to local needs and Indian conditions. By emphasizing this colonial dimension of medicine, Arnold highlights the centrality of the body to political authority in British India and shows how medicine both influenced and articulated the intrinsic contradictions of colonial rule.

Leprosy in Colonial South India

Leprosy in Colonial South India
Author: J. Buckingham
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2001-12-18
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1403932735

Leprosy is a neglected topic in the burgeoning field of the history of medicine and the colonized body. Leprosy in Colonial South India is not only a history of an intriguing and dramatic endemic disease, it is a history of colonial power in nineteenth-century British India as seen through the lens of British medical and legal encounters with leprosy and its sufferers in south India. Leprosy in Colonial South India offers a detailed examination of the contribution of leprosy treatment and legislative measures to negotiated relationships between indigenous and British medicine and the colonial impact on indigenous class formation, while asserting the agency of the poor and vagrant leprous classes in their own history.

Public Health in British India

Public Health in British India
Author: Mark Harrison
Publisher:
Total Pages: 324
Release: 1994
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780521441278

An examination of medicine's role in the consolidation of colonial rule in the Indian Raj.

Beastly encounters of the Raj

Beastly encounters of the Raj
Author: Saurabh Mishra
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2017-03-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0719098017

This is the first full-length monograph to examine the history of colonial medicine in India from the perspective of veterinary health. The history of human health in the subcontinent has received a fair amount of attention in the last few decades, but nearly all existing texts have completely ignored the question of animal health. This book will not only fill this gap, but also provide fresh perspectives and insights that might challenge existing arguments. At the same time, this volume is a social history of cattle in India. Keeping the question of livestock at the centre, it explores a range of themes such as famines, agrarian relations, urbanisation, middle-class attitudes, caste formations etc. The overall aim is to integrate medical history with social history in a way that has not often been attempted.

Healing Knowledge in Atlantic Africa

Healing Knowledge in Atlantic Africa
Author: Kalle Kananoja
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2021-02-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108491251

Kananoja demonstrates how medical interaction in early modern Atlantic Africa was characterised by continuous knowledge exchange between Africans and Europeans.

A Concise Introduction to Indian Medicine

A Concise Introduction to Indian Medicine
Author: Guy Mazars
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
Total Pages: 134
Release: 2006
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9788120830585

The Conception of Buddhist Nirvana provides an English Translation of Nagarjuna`s chapters on Causality and Nirvana and Chandrakiriti`s comprehensive commentary on the Sanskrit Text and presents a rare exposition of the Madhyamaka Dialectic. The book is edited by Jaideva Singh with an exhaustive introduction, containing the historical background of the Madhyamaka philosophy, a lucid exposition of its merciless logic, an admirable presentation of its uncanny metaphysics and a systematic account of its soteriology and Buddhol;ogy. The editor has also provided and Analysis of Contents and has added those portions of the text and the Sanskrit commentary on the basis of which Stcherbatsky wrote out his book. This will enable the reader to make a comparative study of Stcherbatsky;s version with the Original Sanskrit.

Gender, Medicine, and Society in Colonial India

Gender, Medicine, and Society in Colonial India
Author: Sujata Mukherjee
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780199468225

This book analyses the interface between medicine and colonial society through the lens of gender. The work traces the growth of hospital medicine in nineteenth century Bengal and shows how it created a space-albeit small-for providing western health care to female patients. It observes that, unlike in the colonial setup, before the advent of hospital medicine women were treated mostly by female practitioners of indigenous therapies who had commendable skill as practitioners. The book also explores the linkages of growth of medical education for women and the role of the Brahmo Samaj in this process. The manuscript tackles several crucial questions including those of racial discrimination, reproductive health practices, sexual health, famines and mortality, and the role of women's agencies and other organizations in popularizing western medicine and healthcare.