Health and Medicine in the Indian Princely States: 1850-1950

ISBN-13: 9780367866501 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 168 str.

Waltraud Ernst; Biswamoy Pati; T. V. Sekher

Opis

Exploring contentious issues currently debated in the existing scholarship on medicine in British India and other colonies, this book covers the ‘indigenisation’ of health services; the inter-relationship of colonial and indigenous paradigms of medical practice; the impact of specific political and administrative events and changes on health pol

Spis treści

Introduction, Waltraud Ernst, Biswamoy Pati, T.V. Sekher

Section I: Mysore

1. Plague administration in princely Mysore: Resistance, riots, and reconciliation, T.V. Sekher

2. Addressing public health and sanitation in Mysore, 1881-1921: ‘Model’ state and ‘native’ administrators, T.V. Sekher

Section II: The Orissan states

3. Princely maladies: Leprosy, Biswamoy Pati 

4. Smallpox in the princely enclaves of Orissa, Biswamoy Pati

Section III: Travancore

5. Medical developments and western psychiatry in Travancore and Orissa, Waltraud Ernst

O autorze

Waltraud Ernst is Professor in the History of Medicine at Oxford Brookes University, UK.

Biswamoy Pati is a historian and teaches at the Department of History, Delhi University, and is presently a Senior Fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi, India.

T.V. Sekher is a Professor in the Department of Population Policies and Programs at the International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Deemed University, Mumbai, India.