Title: Medicine in India : modern period /
Authors: Jaggi, O. P.; Project of History of Indian Science, Philosophy, and Culture.
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Year: 2000
Subjects: History of Medicine; Medicine India History; India
Contents: The colonial period -- Scientific concepts before and after the Renaissance -- Advent of western medical education in India -- Hospitals in India -- Insanitation, disease, and remedial measures -- Army health and hygiene -- Communicable diseases: Cholera -- Plague -- Smallpox -- Malaria and other fevers -- Kala-azar -- Typhoid -- Tuberculosis -- Leprosy -- Venereal diseases -- Vital statistics about disease and death -- Maternal and child health -- Indigenous profession of midwives (dais) -- Nursing profession in India -- Goodwill earned by European medical personnel -- Political and social influence of European physicians -- Surgery in India in the second half of the nineteenth century -- Cataract surgery: from couching to lens removal -- Researches in material medica and pharmacology -- Organization of medical research -- Medical research institutes (up to 1947) -- Early history of the Indian Medical Service -- Creation of the Indian Medical Council -- Medical ethics in India through the ages -- What foreigners had to say about Ayurveda -- Revival of Ayurveda -- Unani medicine in India -- Homeopathy in India -- Nature cure system in India -- Faith healing in India -- Yoga -- Indigenous systems of medicine during British supremacy in India.