Asha Achuthan

The Dai and the Indigenous

Notes on the Appearance and Disappearance of a Figure in the Therapeutics of a Nation

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Produktbeschreibung

A study of the conflict between western and indigenous systems and practices of medicine, this book explores the shifting meanings of indigenous medicine within the therapeutic language that emerged in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in India, with reference to the exclusion of the indigenous dai or midwife.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 581g
• ISBN-13: 9780367424282
• ISBN-10: 0367424282
• Artikelnr.: 70678618

Autorenporträt

Asha Achuthan is Assistant Professor at the Advanced Centre for Women's Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Bombay, India.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Chapter 1
Introduction: the dai and the terrain of indigenous practice
Chapter 2
Historiographies of science and medicine in India
Chapter 3
Revisiting the clinical encounter I: sites and meanings of an emerging
indigenous therapeutics
Chapter 4
Revisiting the clinical encounter II: the emergence of the dai in the
management of populations
Chapter 5
The nation and its women: re-examining an old preoccupation
Chapter 6
Indigenous therapeutics in the present, the recalibration of the expert
domain, and the place of the dai
Index