Locating the Medical: Explorations in South Asian History

ISBN-13: 9780199486717 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 320 str.

Rohan Deb Roy; Guy N. a. Attewell

Opis

This volume interrogates the foundational categories that have come to define medical science in modern South Asia. It seeks to probe issues such as what constitutes the 'medical', in which context, and who defines it. This is achieved through case studies that range from the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries, from colonial Bengal and British Burma to present-day Andaman Islands and Ladakh.

Recenzje

...the volume is a welcome addition to the well-established field of South Asian Studies

O autorze

Rohan Deb Roy is Lecturer in South Asian History at the University of Reading. He received his PhD from University College London, UK. He is the author of Malarial Subjects: Empire, Medicine and Non-humans in British India, 1820-1909. Guy N.A. Attewell is an independent researcher, and divides his time between Tamil Nadu, India, and the UK. He was formerly a Researcher in the Department of Social Sciences at the French Institute of Pondicherry, India, and taught in University College London, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, UK.