Social History of Health

Pati, Biswamoy ; Harrison, Mark (Hrsg.):
The social history of health and medicine in colonial India / [ed. by] Biswamoy Pati and Mark Harrison. - London [u.a.] : Routledge, 2009. - XII, 241 S. : Ill. - (Routledge studies in South Asian history)
ISBN: 0-415-46231-2 / 978-0-415-46231-0
£ 85,00

Beschreibung
This book analyses the diverse facets of the social history of health and medicine in colonial India. It explores a unique set of themes that capture the diversities of India, such as public health, medical institutions, mental illness and the politics and economics of colonialism. Based on inter-disciplinary research, the contributions offer valuable insight into topics that have recently received increased scholarly attention, including the use of opiates and the role of advertising in driving medical markets. The contributors, both established and emerging scholars in the field, incorporate sources ranging from palm leaf manuscripts to archival materials.
   This book will be of interest to scholars of history, especially the history of medicine and the history of colonialism and imperialism, sociology, social anthropology, cultural theory, and South Asian Studies, as well as to health workers and NGOs. [Verlagsinformation]

Inhalt
List of figures. vii
List of tables. ix
List of contributors. xi
Acknowledgements. xiii
1. Mark Harrison and Biswamoy Pati: Social history of health and medicine: Colonial India. 1
2. Partho Datta: Ranald Martin's medical topography (1837) : the emergence of public health in Calcutta. 15
3. Saurabh Mishra: Beyond the bounds of time? : The Haj pilgrimage from the Indian subcontinent, 1865-1920. 31
4. Amna Khalid: Subordinate negotiations : indigenous staff, the colonial state, and public health. 45
5. Sanchari Dutta: Plague, quarantine, and empire : British-Indian sanitary strategies in Central Asia, 1897-1907. 74
6. Achintya Kumar Dutta: Medical research and control of disease : Kala-azar in British India. 93
7. Chandi P. Nanda and Biswamoy Pati: The leprosy patient and society : colonial Orissa, 1870s-1940s. 113
8. Waltraud Ernst: Institutions, people and power: lunatic asylums in Bengal. 129
9. Samiksha Sehrawat: Prejudices clung to by the natives : ethnicity in the Indian army and hospitals for Sepoys, c. 1870s-90s. 151
10. Mark Harrison: Racial pathologies : morbid anatomy in British India, 1770-1850. 173
11. Projit B. Mukharji: Pharmacology, indigenous knowledge, nationalism : a few words from the epitaph of subaltern science. 195
12. Madhuri Sharma: Creating a consumer : exploring medical advertisements in colonial India. 213
13. Amar Farooqui: Opium as a household remedy in nineteenth century Western India? 229
Index. 238

Herausgeber
BISWAMOY PATI is Reader in the Department of History at Sri Venkateswara College, Delhi University, India. His research interests focus on colonial Indian social history and recent publications include an edited book, The Nature of 1857 (2007), and a book co-edited with Waltraud Ernst entitled India's Princely States: People, Princes and Colonialism (2007).

MARK HARRISON is Professor of the History of Medicine and Director of the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine at Oxford University. His publications include Public Health in British India (1994), Climates and Constitutions (1999) and a co-edited book with Biswamoy Pati, Health, Medicine and Empire (2001). Profile page.

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