Contesting Colonial Authority

Medicine and Indigenous Responses in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century India
Herausgeber: Bala, Poonam

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. April 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 415g
• ISBN-13: 9780739170236
• ISBN-10: 0739170236
• Artikelnr.: 35058180

Autorenporträt

Poonam Bala is currently visiting scholar in the Department of Sociology at Cleveland State University, Ohio.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Introduction 1. 'Nationalizing' Medicine by Poonam Bala 2.
Teaching European Medicine in Colonial Goa by Cristiana Bastos 3. Ayurvedic
Pharmaceuticals by Madhulika Banerjee 4. Corporal Contestations by Shrimoy
Roy Chaudhary 5. Colonial Medicine and Elite Nationalist Responses in India
by Shamshad Khan 6. Colonial Compassion and Political Calculation by Sean
Lang 7. Educating Lady Doctors in Colonial Burma by Atsuko Naono 8. Unani
Medical Culture by Neshat Quaiser 9. Malarial Fever in Nineteenth-Century
Bengal by Arabinda Samanta Index About the Contributors