| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 292 pages) |
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A heterodoxy between institutions : bureaucracy, print-market, and family firms -- A family of biographies : colonial lives of a western heterodoxy -- A science in translation : medicine, language, identity -- Healing the home : indigeneity, self-help and the Hindu joint family -- Colonial law, electoral politics, and a homoeopathic public |
| Summary |
Conceptualised in opposition to 'orthodox' medicine, homoeopathy, a western medical project originating in eighteenth-century Germany, was reconstituted as vernacular medicine in British Bengal. India went on to become the home of the largest population of users of homoeopathic medicine in the world. 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 homoeopathy was translated and indigenised in the colony as a specific Hindu worldview, an economic vision and a disciplining regimen. In tracing the localisation of German homoeopathy in a British Indian province, this book analyses interactions between Calcutta-based homoeopathic family firms, disparate contributors to the Bengali print market, the British colonial state and emergent nationalist governments. The history of homoeopathy in Bengal reveals myriad negotiations undertaken by the colonised peoples to reshape scientific modernity in the subcontinent |
| Notes |
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 22 Feb 2019) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Homeopathy -- India -- History -- 19th century
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Medicine -- History.
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Homeopathy -- history
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Colonialism -- history
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Marketing of Health Services!x history
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Family Health!x history
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Health Policy!x history
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History, 19th Century
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Histroy, 20th Century
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History of Medicine
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history of medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Pharmacology.
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Homeopathy
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Medicine
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India
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781108354905 |
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1108354904 |
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9781108359597 |
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1108359590 |
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