Title Medicine and colonialism : historical perspectives in India and South Africa / edited by Poonam Bala

Published London ; New York : Routledge, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 225 pages) Series Empires in perspective ; no. 22 Empires in perspective ; no. 22. Contents 'Re-constructing' Indian medicine : the role of caste in late nineteenth- and twentieth-century India / Poonam Bala -- The resurgence of indigenous medicine in the age of the HIV/AIDS pandemic : South Africa beyond the 'miracle' / Steve Phatlane -- Medicine, medical knowledge and healing at the Cape of Good Hope : Khoikhoi, slaves and colonists / Russel Viljoen -- Dealing with disease : epizootics, veterinarians and public health in colonial Bengal, 1850-1920 / Samiparna Samanta -- Mahatma Gandhi under the plague spotlight / Howard Phillips -- Plague hits the colonies : India and South Africa at the turn of the twentieth century / Natasha Sarkar -- The blind men and the elephant : imperial medicine, medieval historians and the role of rats in the historiography of plague / Katherine Royer --Physicians, forceps and childbirth : technological intervention in reproductive health in colonial Bengal / Arabinda Samanta -- Not fit for punishment : diagnosing criminal lunatics in late nineteenth-century British India / Jonathan Saha -- Multiple voices and plausible claims : historiography and colonial lunatic asylum archives / Sally Swartz -- Death and empire : legal medicine in the colonization of India and Africa / Jeffrey M. Jentzen Summary Focusing on India and South Africa during the nineteenth and twentieth century, 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 Notes "First published 2014 by Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Ltd."--Title page verso Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (Taylor & Francis, viewed November 8, 2021) Subject Medical care -- India -- History -- 19th century Medical care -- India -- History -- 20th century Medical care -- South Africa -- History -- 19th century Medical care -- South Africa -- History -- 20th century Medical care -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 19th century Medical care -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 20th century Traditional medicine -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 19th century Traditional medicine -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 20th century Medicine, Traditional Colonialism -- history POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare. Medical care. Imperialismus Kolonie Medizinische Versorgung Volksmedizin SUBJECT India https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D007194 South Africa https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D013019 Subject Great Britain. India. South Africa. Großbritannien Indien Südafrika Kontinent Genre/Form History. Form Electronic book Author Bala, Poonam, 1958- editor. ISBN 9781315654157 1315654156 9781317318224 1317318226 1138663131 9781138663138 1848934653 9781848934658

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