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Author : J. CAMPBELL BROWN
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555060944
Author : Biswamoy Pati,Mark Harrison
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351262187
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 : Biswamoy Pati,Mark Harrison
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2008-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134042609
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 : J. Mills
Publisher : Springer
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2000-07-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230286047
This fascinating, entertaining and often gruelling book by James Mills, examines the lunatic asylums set up by the British in nineteenth-century India. The author asserts that there was a growth in asylums following the Indian Mutiny, fuelled by the fear of itinerant and dangerous individuals, which existed primarily in the British imagination. Once established though, these asylums, which were staffed by Indians and populated by Indians, quickly became arenas in which the designs of the British were contested and confronted. Mills argues that power is everywhere and is behind every action; colonial power is therefore just another way to assert control over the less powerful. This social history draws on official archives and documents based in Scotland, England and India. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in history, sociology, or the general interest reader.
Author : Mary de Young
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780786468973
The mentally ill have always been with us, but once confined in institutions their treatment has not always been of much interest or concern. This work makes a case for why it should be. Using published reports, studies, and personal narratives of doctors and patients, this book reveals how therapeutics have always been embedded in their particular social and historical moment, and how they have linked extant medical knowledge, practitioner skill and the expectations of patients who experienced their own disorders in different ways. Asylum therapeutics during three centuries are detailed in encyclopedic entries, including "awakening" patients with firecrackers, easing brain congestion by bleeding, extracting teeth and excising parts of the colon, dousing with water, raising or lowering body temperature, shocking with electricity or toxins, and penetrating the brain with ice picks.
Author : Ryan Johnson,Amna Khalid
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136596452
Over the last several decades, historians of public health in Britain’s colonies have been primarily concerned with the process of policy making in the upper echelons of the medical and sanitary administrations. Yet it was the lower level staff that formed the backbone of public health systems in the colonies. Although they constituted the bases of many colonies’ public health machinery, there is no consolidated study of these individuals to date. Public Health in the British Empire addresses this gap by bringing together historians studying intermediary and subordinate staff across the British Empire. Along with investigating the duties and responsibilities of medical and non-medical intermediary and subordinate personnel, the contributors to this volume show how the subjectivity of these agents influenced the manner in which they discharged their duties and how this in turn shaped policy. Even those working as low level assistants and aids were able to affect policy design. In this way, Public Health in the British Empire brings into sharp relief the disaggregated nature of the empire, thereby challenging the understanding of the imperial project as an enterprise conceived of and driven from the center.
Author : Shilpi Rajpal
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190993320
Curing Madness? focusses on the institutional and non-institutional histories of madness in colonial north India. It proves that 'madness' and its 'cure' are shifting categories which assumed new meanings and significance as knowledge travelled across cultural, medical, national, and regional boundaries. The book examines governmental policies, legal processes, diagnosis and treatment, and individual case histories by looking closely at asylums in Agra, Benaras, Bareilly, Lucknow, Delhi, and Lahore. Rajpal highlights that only a few mentally ill ended up in asylums; most people suffering from insanity were cared for by their families and local vaidyas, ojhas, and pundits. These practitioners of traditional medicine had to reinvent themselves to retain their relevance as Western medical knowledge was widely disseminated in colonial India. Evidence of this is found in the Hindi medical advice literature of the era. Taking these into account Shilpi Rajpal moves beyond asylum-centric histories to examine extensive archival materials gathered from various repositories.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Asia
ISBN : UOM:39015079678044
Author : James H. Mills
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0191554650
Cannabis Britannica explores the historical origins of the UK's legislation and regulations on cannabis preparations before 1928. It draws on published and unpublished sources from the seventeenth century onwards, from archives in the UK and India, to show how the history of cannabis and the British before the twentieth century was bound up with imperialism. James Mills argues that until the 1900s, most of the information and experience gathered by British sources were drawn from colonial contexts as imperial administrators governed and observed populations where use of cannabis was extensive and established. This is most obvious in the 1890s when British anti-opium campaigners in the House of Commons seized on the issue of Government of India excise duties on the cannabis trade in Asia in order to open up another front in their attacks on imperial administration. The result was that cannabis preparations became a matter of concern in Parliament which accordingly established the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission. The story in the twentieth century is of the momentum behind moves to include cannabis substances in domestic law and in international treaties. The latter was a matter of the diplomatic politics of imperialism, as Britain sought to defend its cannabis revenues in India against American and Egyptian interests. The domestic story focuses on the coming together of the police, the media, and the pharmaceutical industry to form misunderstandings of cannabis that forced it onto the Poisons Schedule despite the misgivings of the Home Office and of key medical professionals. The book is the first full history of the origins of the moments when cannabis first became subjected to laws and regulations in Britain.
Author : Library of the Surgeon-General's Office (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1078 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Medical libraries
ISBN : CORNELL:31924101383226
Author : Anonymous
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368130114
Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.
Author : Asiatic Society of Bengal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Asia
ISBN : UCAL:B2996144
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Asia
ISBN : NYPL:33433096145085
Author : Anonymous
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368153229
Reprint of the original.
Author : W. W. Hunter
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783385204157
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
