Shinjini Das

Vernacular Medicine in Colonial India

Family, Market and Homoeopathy

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Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 239mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9781108420624
• ISBN-10: 1108420621
• Artikelnr.: 53445501

Autorenporträt

Shinjini Das is a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow at the Faculty of History, University of Oxford. She received her Ph.D. from University College London and has previously held a postdoctoral fellowship funded by the European Research Council at the University of Cambridge.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: 'A growing scandal under British rule': families, market and the vernacular
1. A heterodoxy between institutions: bureaucracy, print-market and family firms
2. A family of biographies: colonial lives of a Western heterodoxy
3. A science in translation: medicine, language, identity
4. Healing the home: indigeneity, self-help and the Hindu joint family
5. Colonial law, electoral politics and a homeopathic public
Epilogue: a familiar science.