Medical encounters in British India/ Edited by Deepak Kumar and Raj Sekhar Basu
Material type: TextPublication details: New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2013Description: vii,329p. : 24cmISBN: 019808921X; 9780198089216Subject(s): Medicine -- India -- HistoryDDC classification: 610.954Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Books | Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section | 610.954 KUM/M (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | P39115 |
Contains bibliography.
SECTION I: THE MULTIPLICITY OF DOMAINS ;
1. PROBING HISTORY OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH IN INDIA: A STUDY OF ENCOUNTERS AT MULTIPLE SITES (DEEPAK KUMAR) ;
2. ANATOMICAL KNOWLEDGE AND EAST-WEST EXCHANGE (JAYANTA BHATTACHARYA) ;
3. FROM BAZAAR MEDICINE TO HOSPITAL MEDICINE: CALOMEL, INDIA AND THE BRITISH EMPIRE, C.1750-C.1800 (MARK HARRISON) ;
4. DIETETICS, MIMESIS, AND ALTERITY: FOOD IN ASIAN MEDICAL TRADITIONS AND EAST-WEST EXCHANGES (DAVID ARNOLD) ;
5. HEALTH AND SOVEREIGNTY IN THE NEW ASIA: THE DECLINE AND RISE OF THE TROPICS (SUNIL AMRITH) ; SECTION II: THE DIFFERING PERCEPTIONS ;
6. CHOLERA, HEROIC THERAPIES, AND RISE OF HOMOEOPATHY IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY INDIA (DHRUB KUMAR SINGH) ;
7. KNOWING HEALTH AND MEDICINE: A CASE STUDY OF BENARES, C.1900-1950 (MADHURI SHARMA) ;
8. HEALING THE SICK AND THE DESTITUTE: PROTESTANT MISSIONARIES AND MEDICAL MISSIONS IN NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURY TRAVANCORE (RAJ SEKHAR BASU) ;
9. A MIXED RECORD: MALARIA CONTROL IN BOMBAY PRESIDENCY, 1900-1935 (MRIDULA RAMANNA) ;
10. VULNERABILITY OF WOMEN TO BACILLUS: MYTHS AND REALITY IN INDIA (1890-1950) (BIKRAMADITYA K. CHOUDHARY) ;
11. NEGOTIATING SUBALTERNITY: SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF TUBERCULOSIS IN COLONIAL AND POST-COLONIAL INDIA (ARABINDA SAMANTA) ;
12. 'DELIVERING THE "MURDERED CHILD": INFANTICIDE, ABORTION AND CONTRACEPTION IN COLONIAL INDIA' (INDIRA CHOWDHURY) ;
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