Book ID: CBB707887835

Society, Medicine and Politics in Colonial India (2018)

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Pati, Biswamoy (Editor)
Harrison, Mark (Editor)


Routledge India


Publication Date: 2018
Physical Details: 338
Language: English

The history of medicine and disease in colonial India remains a dynamic and innovative field of research, covering many facets of health, from government policy to local therapeutics. This volume presents a selection of essays examining varied aspects of health and medicine as they relate to the political upheavals of the colonial era. These range from the micro-politics of medicine in princely states and institutions such as asylums through to the wider canvas of sanitary diplomacy as well as the meaning of modernity and modernization in the context of British rule. The volume reflects the diversity of the field and showcases exciting new scholarship from early-career researchers as well as more established scholars by bringing to light many locations and dimensions of medicine and modernity. The essays have several common themes and together offer important insights into South Asia’s experience of modernity in the years before independence. Cutting across modernity and colonialism, some of the key themes explored here include issues of race, gender, sexuality, law, mental health, famine, disease, religion, missionary medicine, medical research, tensions between and within different medical traditions and practices and India’s place in an international context. This book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of modern South Asian history, sociology, politics and anthropology as well as specialists in the history of medicine.

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Authors & Contributors
Geddes da Filicaia, Marco
Tina Travagliante
Maria Paola Zanoboni
Facil Tesfaye
Lina Scalisi
Giorgio Giulio Santonocito
Concepts
Medicine and politics
Medicine and society
Disease and diseases
Public health
Colonialism
Medicine
Time Periods
Early modern
19th century
Medieval
20th century, early
Modern
Ancient
Places
Europe
India
Middle and Near East
Sicily
United States
Tropics
Institutions
Catholic University of Ireland (Dublin)
Royal Belfast Academical Institution
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