Medicine Race And Liberalism In British Bengal
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Medicine Race and Liberalism in British Bengal
Author | : Ishita Pande |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2009-12-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781136972409 |
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This book focuses on the entwinement of politics and medicine and power and knowledge in India during the age of empire. Using the powerful metaphor of ‘pathology’ - the science of the origin, nature, and course of diseases - the author develops and challenges a burgeoning literature on colonial medicine, moving beyond discussions of state medicine and the control of epidemics to everyday life, to show how medicine was a fundamental ideology of empire. Related to this point, and engaging with postcolonial histories of biopower and modernity, the book highlights the use of this racially grounded medicine in the formulation of modern selves and subjectivities in late colonial India. In tracing the cultural determinants of biological race theory and contextualizing the understanding of race as pathology, the book demonstrates how racialism was compatible with the ideologies and policies of imperial liberalism. Medicine, Race and Liberalism in British Bengal brings together the study of modern South Asia, race theory, colonialism and empire and the history of medicine. It highlights the powerful role played by the idea of ‘pathology’ in the rationalization of imperial liberalism and the subsequent projects of modernity embraced by native experts in Bengal in the ‘long’ nineteenth century.
Curing Calcutta
Author | : Ishita Pande |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 462 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Bengal (India) |
ISBN | : OCLC:62317723 |
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Race Science and Medicine 1700 1960
Author | : Waltraud Ernst,Bernard Harris |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2002-01-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781134676453 |
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Considering cases from Europe to India, this collection brings together current critical research into the role played by racial issues in the production of medical knowledge. Confronting such controversial themes as colonialism and medicine, the origins of racial thinking and health and migration, the distinguished contributors examine the role played by medicine in the construction of racial categories.
Modern Maternities
Author | : Ranjana Saha |
Publsiher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2023-07-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781000905397 |
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1) This is one of the first systematic historical account of Medical Advice about Breastfeeding in Colonial Calcutta. 2) It has rich archival sources like rare medical handbooks and periodicals, governmental proceedings, child welfare exhibition and conference reports, personal papers, memoirs, illustrations and advertisements. 3) This book will be of interest to departments of social history and colonial history across UK.
Brown Skins White Coats
Author | : Projit Bihari Mukharji |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 367 |
Release | : 2023-02-17 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780226823003 |
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A unique narrative structure brings the history of race science in mid-twentieth-century India to vivid life. There has been a recent explosion in studies of race science in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, but most have focused either on Europe or on North America and Australia. In this stirring history, Projit Bihari Mukharji illustrates how India appropriated and repurposed race science to its own ends and argues that these appropriations need to be understood within the national and regional contexts of postcolonial nation-making—not merely as footnotes to a Western history of “normal science.” The book comprises seven factual chapters operating at distinct levels—conceptual, practical, and cosmological—and eight fictive interchapters, a series of epistolary exchanges between the Bengali author Hemendrakumar Ray (1888–1963) and the protagonist of his dystopian science fiction novel about race, race science, racial improvement, and dehumanization. In this way, Mukharji fills out the historical moment in which the factual narrative unfolded, vividly revealing its moral, affective, political, and intellectual fissures.
Ayurveda Made Modern
Author | : R. Berger |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2013-09-16 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9781137315908 |
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This book explores the ways in which Ayurveda, the oldest medical tradition of the Indian subcontinent, was transformed from a composite of 'ancient' medical knowledge into a 'modern' medical system, suited to the demands posed by apparatuses of health developed in late colonial India.
Locating the Medical
Author | : Rohan Deb Roy,Guy N.A. Attewell |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2017-11-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780199091706 |
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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. By examining the close interactions between political authorities, corporeal knowledge, and objects of governance in a sustained manner, the domains of the medical and the non-medical are revealed to be more blurred and porous than apparent. This provides us with new perspectives on the co-production of medicine and social worlds by actors and agencies in specific times and places.
Vernacular Medicine in Colonial India
Author | : Shinjini Das |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 307 |
Release | : 2019-03-14 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 9781108420624 |
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Interrelated histories of colonial medicine, market and family reveal how Western homeopathy was translated and made vernacular in colonial India.