Society, Medicine and Politics in Colonial India

ISBN-13: 9781138286337 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 326 str.

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This volume examines varied aspects of health and medicine as they relate to the political upheavals of the colonial era — from the micro-politics of medicine in princely states and institutions such as asylums through to the wider canvas of sanitary diplomacy as well as the meaning of modernity and modernisation in the context of British rule. Cutting across modernity and colonialism, some of the key themes explored here include issues of race, gender, sexuality, law, mental health, famine, disease, religion, missionary medicine, medical research, tensions between and within different medical traditions and practices, and India’s place in an international context.

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List of Figures and Tables.  Contributors.  Acknowledgements.  Introduction  1. The Sentencing of Assisted Suicide in the Nizamut Adawlut, 1810-1829: Religion, Health and Gender in the Formation of British Indian Criminal Law  2. The Great Shift: Cholera Theory and Sanitary Policy in British India, 1867-1879  3. Hakims and Haiza: Unani Medicine and Cholera in Late-Colonial India  4. Of Cholera, Colonialism and Pilgrimage Sites: Rethinking Popular Responses to State Sanitation, c.1867-1900  5. Western Science, Indigenous Medicine and the Princely States: The Case of the Ayurvedic Reorganisation in Travancore, 1870-1940  6. Christian Missionary Women’s Hospitals in Mysore State, c. 1880-1930  7. The Epidemiological, Health and Medical Aspects of Famine: Views from the Madras Presidency (1876-78)  8. Gender and Insanity: Situating the Asylums in Nineteenth-Century Bengal  9. Confining 'Lunatics': The Cuttack Asylum, c.1864-1906  10. What did the ‘Wise Men’ Say? Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Health in Nineteenth-Century Bengal  11. Feminizing Empire: The Association of Medical Women in India and the Campaign for a Women’s Medical Service  12. Indian Physicians and Public Health Challenges: Bombay Presidency, 1896-1920  13. Tracking Kala-azar: The East Indian Experience and Experiments. Index