History Of Medicine In India The Medical Encounter

Author : Achintya Kumar Dutta
Publisher : Gyan Publishing House
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8178353237

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History of Medicine in India by Achintya Kumar Dutta Pdf

The book deals with the medical encounter between eastern and western medicine. So far, Philip Curtin, David Arnold, Ira Klein, Michael Worboys, Ian Catanach, Ralph Nicholas, Paul greenough and Roy McLeod, Mark Harrison among others have represented the western view on this historic encounter. There was no reply from the Indian Scholars on the debate. The current work is the first major attempt to represent the views of the Indian medical historians. It deals with epidemics, public health, traditional medicine and the received western medicine, women's health and many other allied questions. The value of this academic engagement cannot be overemphasized. This is destined to become a standard text for History of Medicine for medical students and general readers of the subject.

Author : Chittabrata Palit Editors (Achintya Kumar Dutta)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 6000033044

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HISTORY OF MEDICINE IN INDIA The Medical Encounter by Chittabrata Palit Editors (Achintya Kumar Dutta) Pdf

Author : Deepak Kumar,Raj Sekhar Basu
Publisher : OUP India
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 019808921X

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Medical Encounters in British India by Deepak Kumar,Raj Sekhar Basu Pdf

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.

Author : Gerrit Jan Meulenbeld,D. Wujastyk
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Medical
ISBN : 8120817680

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Studies on Indian Medical History by Gerrit Jan Meulenbeld,D. Wujastyk Pdf

This volume of studies presents the papers given at the second workshop of the European Ayurdic society, a group which was formed in Groningen in 1983. The volume is thus a sequel to Proceedings of the international workshop on priorities in the study of Indian medicine. The workshop was held over a period of three days in September 1985 in the congenial surroundings of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine ii London, and it provided a splendid opportunity for scholars in the field of Indian medical history to meet in one place and to share the latest research in their respective areas.

Author : Biswamoy Pati,Mark Harrison
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2008-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134042609

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The Social History of Health and Medicine in Colonial India by Biswamoy Pati,Mark Harrison Pdf

This book analyzes the diverse facets of the social history of health and medicine in colonial India. It explores a unique set of themes that capture the diversities of India, such as public health, medical institutions, mental illness and the politics and economics of colonialism. Based on inter-disciplinary research, the contributions offer valuable insight into topics that have recently received increased scholarly attention, including the use of opiates and the role of advertising in driving medical markets. The contributors, both established and emerging scholars in the field, incorporate sources ranging from palm leaf manuscripts to archival materials. This book will be of interest to scholars of history, especially the history of medicine and the history of colonialism and imperialism, sociology, social anthropology, cultural theory, and South Asian Studies, as well as to health workers and NGOs.

Author : Biswamoy Pati,Mark Harrison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : India
ISBN : 8125029915

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Health, Medicine and Empire by Biswamoy Pati,Mark Harrison Pdf

This collection of essays weaves together several themes related to the social history of health and medicine in colonial India. Its focus ranges from analysing Europe's relationship with India's indigenous medical systems, to case studies of two mental asylums(in Madras and Lucknow), the location of the leprosy asylum, the technological aspects and social implications of the colonial vaccination policy, and to colonial interventions related specifically to cholera and plague in the pilgrimage centres of puri and pandharpur. It also examine indigenous initiatives associated with the Indian drug industry and the Unani medical system and their interactions with the colonial health establishment and modern medicine. Besides charting out hiterto unexplored areas in the history and historiography of colonial medicine and its articulation with indigenous systems, this book demonstrates the rich possibilities of inter-disciplinary research. Of particular interest to the specialist reader, it is also useful to those working on modern India history, cultural studies and sociology.

Author : Biswamoy Pati,Mark Harrison
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351262187

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Society, Medicine and Politics in Colonial India by Biswamoy Pati,Mark Harrison Pdf

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.

Author : Waltraud Ernst,Biswamoy Pati,T.V. Sekher
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351678421

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Health and Medicine in the Indian Princely States by Waltraud Ernst,Biswamoy Pati,T.V. Sekher Pdf

Since the 1980s there has been a continual engagement with the history and the place of western medicine in colonial settings and non-western societies. In relation to South Asia, research on the role of medicine has focussed primarily on regions under direct British administration. This book looks at the ‘princely states’ that made up about two fifths of the subcontinent. Two comparatively large states, Mysore and Travancore – usually considered as ‘progressive’ and ‘enlightened’ – and some of the princely states of Orissa – often described as ‘backward’ and ‘despotic’ – have been selected for analysis. The authors map developments in public health and psychiatry, the emergence of specialised medical institutions, the influence of western medicine on indigenous medical communities and their patients and the interaction between them. Exploring contentious issues currently debated in the existing scholarship on medicine in British India and other colonies, this book covers the ‘indigenisation’ of health services; the inter-relationship of colonial and indigenous paradigms of medical practice; the impact of specific political and administrative events and changes on health policies. The book also analyses British medical policies and the Indian reactions and initiatives they evoked in different Indian states. It offers new insights into the interplay of local adaptations with global exchanges between different national schools of thought in the formation of what is often vaguely, and all too simply, referred to as 'western' or 'colonial' medicine. A pioneering study of health and medicine in the princely states of India, it provides a balanced appraisal of the role of medicine during the colonial era. It will be of interest to students and academics studying South Asian and imperial and commonwealth history; the history of medicine; the sociology of health and healing; and medical anthropology, social policy, public health, and international politics.

Author : D. D. Banerjee
Publisher : B. Jain Publishers
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2003-07
Category : Medical
ISBN : 8170212006

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History of Medicine by D. D. Banerjee Pdf

Different Academic Councils And Universities Have Given A Chapter Of The History Of Medicine In Their Courses And Curriculum For Study. There Are Various Books In Different Languages In Different Parts Of The World. This Is Only An Attempt To Have An Abr

Author : Suyog Sindhu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9389565758

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History of Medicine by Suyog Sindhu Pdf

This book enlightens budding doctors about the roots of their subject. It takes the readers to the wonderland of the early doctors in the form of shamans'. One meets Hippocrates, Galen, Paracelsus, and many more fascinating personalities from the past.The saga ends with the living legends from India. This book is recommended for teaching and learning history of medicine.

Author : Anil Kumar
Publisher : SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1998-07-20
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015041996102

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Medicine and the Raj by Anil Kumar Pdf

Kumar (history, Delhi U.) traces the introduction and spread of medical education by British colonial interests, and examines the underlying imperial motives and expediencies. He discusses such issues as the nature and growth of the hospital system and pharmacies, the various kinds of medical services set up to cater to the needs of the imperial masters, the racial discrimination in various spheres, and the Indianization of the medical services. He also describes what the British could have done had their interest been in relieving suffering rather than expanding the empire. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Rohan Deb Roy,Guy N.A. Attewell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199091706

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Locating the Medical by Rohan Deb Roy,Guy N.A. Attewell Pdf

This volume interrogates the foundational categories that have come to define medical science in modern South Asia. It seeks to probe issues such as what constitutes the ‘medical’, in which context, and who defines it. This is achieved through case studies that range from the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries, from colonial Bengal and British Burma to present-day Andaman Islands and Ladakh. By examining the close interactions between political authorities, corporeal knowledge, and objects of governance in a sustained manner, the domains of the medical and the non-medical are revealed to be more blurred and porous than apparent. This provides us with new perspectives on the co-production of medicine and social worlds by actors and agencies in specific times and places.

Author : Deepak Kumar
Publisher : Routledge Chapman & Hall
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-25
Category : Environmental sciences
ISBN : 1032149698

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History of Science, Technology, Environment, and Medicine in India by Deepak Kumar Pdf

Introduction / Suvobrata Sarkar -- Medicine, natural history and the curious case of Soorjo Coomar Goodeve Chuckerbutty / John Mathew -- Examining the foundations of science : an essay on Ramendra Sundar Trivedi's epistemological inquiries / Santanu Chacraverti -- Professor Balaji Prabhakar Modak--a forgotten science propagator from Maharashtra / Abhidha Dhumatkar -- Cultural politics of engagement : Kerala Sastra Sahitya Parishad and the shaping of a scientific-citizen public in Kerala / Shiju Sam Varughese -- Electrification and urbanization in Madras, 1895-1930 / Y. Srinivasa Rao -- Academic engineering and India's colonial encounter : Bengal Engineering College, Sibpur in historical perspective / Suvobrata Sarkar -- Of geologists and water-diviners : the quest for groundwater knowledge in mid-twentieth century India / Kapil Subramanian -- From battlefields to homes : oil's imperial and quotidian life in colonized and independent India / Sarandha Jain -- Designing scientific mining : evolution and implementation, c. 1860s-1930s / Sahara Ahmed -- On grazing lands and cultivated fodder / Himanshu Upadhyaya -- Deforestation, ecological deterioration and scientific forestry in Purulia, 1890s-1960s / Nirmal Kumar Mahato -- Where man meets medicine : some reflections on The death of Ivan Ilyich and Āyurveda with its epistemological consequences / Jayanta Bhattacharya -- Therapeutic ideas and practices of tuberculosis in the Madras Presidency, 1910-1947 / B. Eswara Rao -- A case for the social history of homoeopathic hospitals in India : an invitation for its construction and rendition / Dhrub Kumar Singh -- Saviour sisters : services of the Delhi female medical missionaries in late colonial India / Ch. Radha Gayathri.

Author : Poonam Bala
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780739170243

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Contesting Colonial Authority by Poonam Bala Pdf

Poonam Bala’s Contesting Colonial Authority explores the interplay of conformity and defiance amongst the plural medical tradition in colonial India. The contributors reveal how Indian elites, nationalists, and the rest of the Indian population participated in the move to revisit and frame a new social character of Indian Medicine. Viewed in the light of the cultural, nationalistic, social, literary and scientific essentials, Contesting Colonial Authority highlights various indigenous interpretations and mechanisms through which Indian sciences and medicine were projected against the cultural background of a rich medical tradition.

Author : Lois N. Magner,Oliver J Kim
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-14
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781138197121

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A History of Medicine by Lois N. Magner,Oliver J Kim Pdf

Designed for survey courses in the field A History of Medicine presents a wide-ranging overview for those seeking a solid grounding in the medical history of Western and non-Western cultures. Invaluable to instructors promoting the history of medicine in pre-professional training, and stressing major themes in the history of medicine, this third edition continues to stimulate further exploration of the events, methodologies, and theories that have shaped medical practices in decades past and continue to do so today.