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Author Sharma, Madhuri

Title Indigenous and Western medicine in colonial India / Madhuri Sharma
Published New Delhi : Foundation Books, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 177 pages) : illustrations
Series Culture and environment of South Asia
Culture and environment of South Asia.
Summary This book delves into the social history of medicine and reflects on the complexity of social interaction between indigenous and western medicine in colonial India. The book draws upon a host of authentic sources such as tracts, pamphlets, brochures, booklets of various medicine shops and drug manufacturing companies functioning in the colonial era. This work analyses the medical market and entrepreneurship in medicine in colonial India. It deconstructs the then prevalent #x91;advertisements#x92;, treating them both as a reflection on the contemporaneous values and lifestyles and as a medium for the creation of medical consumers. Emphasizing upon the question of class, gender and racial discriminations, the book also examines the interest generated by modern medical equipment such as the stethoscope and the thermometer, and the way in which these were used to reinforce the norms of social hierarchy and the purdah system. This work also focuses on several debated issues such as birth control, sexuality, and the principles of brahmacharya. The book would be a useful read for sociology and history graduates, as well as researchers and medical professionals
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-173) and index
Notes English
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Subject Traditional medicine -- India -- Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh) -- History
Medicine -- India -- Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh) -- History
Social medicine -- India -- Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh) -- History
Health attitudes.
Medicine, Ayurvedic -- history
Attitude to Health
Colonialism -- history
History, 19th Century
History, 20th Century
PSYCHOLOGY -- Psychotherapy -- General.
Health attitudes
Medicine
Social medicine
Traditional medicine
SUBJECT India https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D007194
Subject India -- Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh)
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9788175969230
8175969237