Poonam Bala

Medicine and Medical Policies in India

Social and Historical Perspectives

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Poonam Bala tenaciously follows the developmental trajectory of medical pluralism in India with a keen eye to the dynamic social production of health and healing systems as social systems, practices, and technologies of power.

---

Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 154
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juni 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 384g
• ISBN-13: 9780739113226
• ISBN-10: 0739113224
• Artikelnr.: 22773856

Autorenporträt

Poonam Bala taught history at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, and is a reader (associate professor) in sociology at Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi. She is the author of Imperialism and Medicine in Bengal: A Socio-Historical Perspective (Sage Publications: New Delhi, Newbury Park, 1991).

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction: Studying Medical Trajectories and Policies Chapter
2 Birth of Indian Medicine: State Support and Assault in Ancient Times?
Chapter 3 Expanding Medical Practice: Patronage Systems under Muslim Rule
Chapter 4 Colonial Imperatives, Medicine and Indian Response Chapter 5
Conclusions: State, Ideology and Medical Traditions in India