Shinjini Das (University of Oxford)

Vernacular Medicine in Colonial India

Family, Market and Homoeopathy

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Produktbeschreibung

Combining insights from the history of colonial medicine and the cultural histories of family in British India, Shinjini Das examines the processes through which Western homeopathy was re-interpreted in the colony as a specific Hindu worldview, an economic vision and a disciplining regimen.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 458g
• ISBN-13: 9781108430692
• ISBN-10: 1108430694
• Artikelnr.: 60040785

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.