Contesting Colonial Authority
Medicine and Indigenous Responses in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century India
1st Edition
Published on 12. April 2012
186 pages
979-8-216-20480-0 (ISBN)
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Poonam Bala's Contesting Colonial Authority explores the interplay of conformity and defiance amongst the plural medical tradition in colonial India. The contributors reveal how Indian elites, nationalists, and the rest of the Indian population participated in the move to revisit and frame a new social character of Indian Medicine. Viewed in the light of the cultural, nationalistic, social, literary and scientific essentials, Contesting Colonial Authority highlights various indigenous interpretations and mechanisms through which Indian sciences and medicine were projected against the cultural background of a rich medical tradition.
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Contesting Colonial Authority
Medicine and Indigenous Responses in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century India
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Poonam Balais currently visiting scholar in the Department of Sociology at Cleveland State University, Ohio.
Content
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. 'Nationalizing' Medicine by Poonam Bala
2. Teaching European Medicine in Colonial Goa by Cristiana Bastos
3. Ayurvedic Pharmaceuticals by Madhulika Banerjee
4. Corporal Contestations by Shrimoy Roy Chaudhary
5. Colonial Medicine and Elite Nationalist Responses in India by Shamshad Khan
6. Colonial Compassion and Political Calculation by Sean Lang
7. Educating Lady Doctors in Colonial Burma by Atsuko Naono
8. Unani Medical Culture by Neshat Quaiser
9. Malarial Fever in Nineteenth-Century Bengal by Arabinda Samanta
Index
About the Contributors
Introduction
1. 'Nationalizing' Medicine by Poonam Bala
2. Teaching European Medicine in Colonial Goa by Cristiana Bastos
3. Ayurvedic Pharmaceuticals by Madhulika Banerjee
4. Corporal Contestations by Shrimoy Roy Chaudhary
5. Colonial Medicine and Elite Nationalist Responses in India by Shamshad Khan
6. Colonial Compassion and Political Calculation by Sean Lang
7. Educating Lady Doctors in Colonial Burma by Atsuko Naono
8. Unani Medical Culture by Neshat Quaiser
9. Malarial Fever in Nineteenth-Century Bengal by Arabinda Samanta
Index
About the Contributors
