Title Disparate remedies : making medicines in modern India / Nandini Bhattacharya

Published Montreal ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2023]

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 257 pages) : illustrations Series Intoxicating histories ; 7 Intoxicating histories ; 7. Contents The Colonial Medicine Chest -- The Bazaar and the Indigenous Pharmaceuticals Industry -- For a Pharmacopeia for India -- The Promises and Forfeiture of Import Substitution -- Adulteration and the Medical Market -- Disparate Dispensing: Pharmacy in the Eclectic Market -- Drugs for the Nation Summary "At present India is a leading producer, distributor, and consumer of generic medicines globally. Disparate Remedies traces the genealogy of this development and examines the public cultures of medicine in the country between 1870 and 1960. The book begins by discussing the expansion of medical consumerism in late nineteenth-century India when British-owned firms extended their sales to distant provincial towns. As a result, laboratory-produced drugs competed with traditional street remedies through side-by-side production of 'Western' and 'Indian' drugs by pharmaceutical companies. The emergent middle classes, the creation of a public sphere, and nationalist politics transformed the medical culture of modern India and generated conflict between Western and Indigenous medical systems and their practitioners. Nandini Bhattacharya demonstrates that these disparate therapies were sustained through the tropes of purity or adulteration, potency or lack of it, and epistemic heritage, even when their material configuration often differed little. Uniquely engaging with the cultures of both consumption and production in the country, Disparate Remedies follows the evolution of medicine in colonial India as it confronted Indian modernity and changing public attitudes surrounding health and drugs."-- Provided by publisher Analysis Alembic Ayurveda BDAmin Baroda Bengal British Burroughs Wellcome Chemicals Government Kala Bhavan Medical Mysore Nehruvian PCRay Pharmacopeia RNChopra Store Unani active alcohol cinchona colonial digitalis drugs efficacy excise import industrial industrialization ingredients modernity pharmacy princely science state substitution trade tropical urban western Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 31, 2023) Subject Pharmaceutical industry -- India -- History -- 19th century Pharmaceutical industry -- India -- History -- 20th century Generic drugs -- India -- History -- 19th century Generic drugs -- India -- History -- 20th century Pharmacopoeias -- India -- History -- 19th century Pharmacopoeias -- India -- History -- 20th century Drug Industry -- history Pharmacopoeias as Topic -- history Pharmaceutical Preparations -- standards Medicine, Traditional -- history Drug Therapy -- history History, 19th Century History, 20th Century HISTORY / Asia / South / India. Generic drugs Pharmaceutical industry Pharmacopoeias India Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780228018605 0228018609 0228017890 9780228017905 0228017904 9780228017899

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