Medical Encounters In British India

Author : Deepak Kumar,Raj Sekhar Basu
Publisher : OUP India
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 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 : Achintya Kumar Dutta
Publisher : Gyan Publishing House
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 50,5 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 : Shinjini Das
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-14
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781108420624

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Vernacular Medicine in Colonial India by Shinjini Das Pdf

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

Author : Anil Kumar
Publisher : SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,7 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 : Chittabrata Palit Editors (Achintya Kumar Dutta)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,5 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 : J. Buckingham
Publisher : Springer
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2001-12-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781403932730

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Leprosy in Colonial South India by J. Buckingham Pdf

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.

Author : David Arnold
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1993-08-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0520082958

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Colonizing the Body by David Arnold Pdf

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.

Author : Sujata Mukherjee
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0199468222

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Gender, Medicine, and Society in Colonial India by Sujata Mukherjee Pdf

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.

Author : Waltraud Ernst,Biswamoy Pati,T. V. Sekher
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Public health
ISBN : 0415679354

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

The book maps developments in public health, the emergence of specialised medical institutions, the influence of western medicine on indigenous medical communities (and their patients) and the interaction between them. Two comparatively large states (Mysore and Travancore), considered 'progressive' and 'enlightened', and some of the 24 Orissa Princely States, seen as 'backward' and 'despotic', will be at the centre of investigation. Contentious issues currently debated in the existing scholarship on medicine in British India and other colonies will be explored (such as 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). Developments in public health and the emergence of medical institutions in Princely India will be traced from both Indian and European perspectives, and British medical policies and the Indian reactions and initiatives they evoked in different Princely States with highly varied socio-economic, cultural and administrative set-ups will be examined.

Author : Kalle Kananoja
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108491259

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Healing Knowledge in Atlantic Africa by Kalle Kananoja Pdf

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

Author : Poonam Bala
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 53,9 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 : John Heritage,Douglas W. Maynard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2006-07-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781139455404

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Communication in Medical Care by John Heritage,Douglas W. Maynard Pdf

This 2006 volume provides a comprehensive discussion of communication between doctors and patients in primary care consultations. It brings together a team of leading contributors from the fields of linguistics, sociology and medicine to describe each phase of the primary care consultation, identifying the distinctive tasks, goals and activities that make up each phase of primary care as social interaction. Using conversation analysis techniques, the authors analyze the sequential unfolding of a visit, and describe the dilemmas and conflicts faced by physicians and patients as they work through each of these activities. The result is a view of the medical encounter that takes the perspective of both physicians and patients in a way that is both rigorous and humane. Clear and comprehensive, this book will be essential reading for students and researchers in sociolinguistics, communication studies, sociology, and medicine.

Author : Biswamoy Pati,Mark Harrison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Health and race
ISBN : 1138107050

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

Author : Madhuri Sharma
Publisher : Cambridge India
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9788175968899

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Indigenous and Western Medicine in Colonial India by Madhuri Sharma Pdf

This book delves into the social history of medicine and reflects on the complexity of social interaction between indigenous and western medicine in colonial India. The book draws upon a host of authentic sources such as tracts, pamphlets, brochures, booklets of various medicine shops and drug manufacturing companies functioning in the colonial era. This work analyses the medical market and entrepreneurship in medicine in colonial India. It deconstructs the then prevalent 'advertisements', treating them both as a reflection on the contemporaneous values and lifestyles and as a medium for the creation of medical consumers. Emphasizing upon the question of class, gender and racial discriminations, the book also examines the interest generated by modern medical equipment such as the stethoscope and the thermometer, and the way in which these were used to reinforce the norms of social hierarchy and the purdah system. This work also focuses on several debated issues such as birth control, sexuality, and the principles of brahmacharya. The book would be a useful read for sociology and history graduates, as well as researchers and medical professionals.

Author : Samiksha Sehrawat
Publisher : OUP India
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0198096607

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Colonial Medical Care in North India by Samiksha Sehrawat Pdf

This book shows how medical care was introduced, expanded, and funded by the colonial state. Intent on limiting medical expenditure, the colonial state created a medical infrastructure with regional and rural-urban disparities in access to medical care, with an over-reliance on the private and voluntary sectors. For the first time, this book analyses medical care for both male and female patients, examining Dufferin Fund hospitals and hospitals for Indian soldiers.