Medicine and Colonialism (eBook, PDF)

Historical Perspectives in India and South Africa
Redaktion: Bala, Poonam

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Produktbeschreibung

Focusing on India and South Africa during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the essays in this collection address power and enforced modernity as applied to medicine. Clashes between traditional methods of healing and the practices brought in by colonizers are explored across both territories.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317318224
• Artikelnr.: 43589099

Autorenporträt

Poonam Bala

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Poonam Bala; Chapter 1 'Re-Constructing' Indian Medicine: The Role of Caste in Late Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century India
Poonam Bala; Chapter 2 The Resurgence of Indigenous Medicine in the Age of the HIV/AIDS Pandemic: South Africa Beyond the 'Miracle'
Steve Phatlane; Chapter 3 Medicine
Medical Knowledge and Healing at the Cape of Good Hope: Khoikhoi
Slaves and Colonists
Russel Viljoen; Chapter 4 Dealing with Disease: Epizootics
Veterinarians and Public Health in Colonial Bengal
1850-1920
Samiparna Samanta; Chapter 5 Mahatma Gandhi Under the Plague Spotlight
Howard Phillips; Chapter 6 Plague Hits the Colonies: India and South Africa at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Natasha Sarkar; Chapter 7 The Blind Men and the Elephant: Imperial Medicine
Medieval Historians and the Role of Rates in the Historiography of Plague
Katherine Royer; Chapter 8 Physicians
Forceps and Childbirth: Technological Intervention in Reproductive Health in Colonial Bengal
Arabinda Samanta; Chapter 9 Not Fit for Punishment: Diagnosing Criminal Lunatics in Late Nineteenth-Century British India
Jonathan Saha; Chapter 10 Multiple Voices and Plausible Claims: Historiography and Colonial Lunatic Asylum Archives
Sally Swartz; Chapter 11 Death and Empire: Legal Medicine in the Colonization of India and Africa
Jeffrey M. Jentzen;