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Title Locating the medical : explorations in South Asian history / edited Rohan Deb Roy and Guy N.A. Attewell
Edition First edition
Published New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2018
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Contents Sociological description and the forensics of sexuality / Durba Mitra -- Treacherous minds, submissive bodies: corporeal technologies and human experimentation in colonial India / Chandak Sengoopta -- Confessions of the unfriendly spleen: medicine, violence, and that mysterious organ of colonial India / Sudipta Sen -- State medicine or medical state?: A prison epidemic in colonial Burma, 1881 / Jonathan Saha -- 'Dr. Kar I presume!': 'medical' narratives from the Jarawa tribal reserve / Vishvajit Pandya, Madhumita Mazumdar -- The making of an eclectic archive: epistemologies of global knowledge in the papers of J.P. Walker (1823-1906) / Clare Anderson -- Absence, abundance, and excess: substances and Sowa Rigpa in Ladakh since the 1960s / Calum Blaikie -- Colonizing cannabis: medication, taxation, intoxication, and oblivion, c.1839-1955 / James H. Mills -- Re-thinking the 'medical' through the lens of the 'indigenous': narratives from Mahanubhav healing shrines in Maharashtra, India / Shubha Ranganathan -- Vernacularizing political medicine: locating the medical betwixt the literal and the literary in two texts on the Burdwan Fever, Bengal c. 1870s / Projit Bihari Mukharji -- Technology and health in late colonial India / David Arnold
Summary This volume interrogates the foundational categories that have come to define medical science in modern South Asia. Through case studies ranging from nineteenth- to twenty first-centuries, it addresses the following questions: How and in what conditions does an event, a substance, an actor, an institution or a particular situation of the body-mind become or cease to be considered 'medical' and according to whom? How did contingent political histories engender the medical? How does the medical, in turn, reshape and sustain political categories? Is the medical necessarily a stable, coherent and continuous category? In what ways are the rigid boundaries between the medical and the nonmedical blurred?
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Audience Specialized
Notes Online resource; title from web page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed on May 13, 2020)
Subject Medical sciences -- South Asia -- History -- 19th century
Medical sciences -- South Asia -- History -- 20th century
Medical sciences -- India -- History -- 19th century
Medical sciences -- India -- History -- 20th century
Medicine -- History.
History of Medicine
history of medicine.
Medicine
Medical sciences
SUBJECT Asia https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D001208
Subject India
South Asia
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Deb Roy, Rohan, editor.
Attewell, Guy N. A., editor.
ISBN 9780199092093
0199092095