Health, medicine, and empire
Subtitle: perspectives on colonial India
By: edited by Bisamoy Pati, Mark Harrison.
Contributors: Pati, Biswamoy.; Harrison, Mark, 1964-
Series: New perspectives in South Asian history ;; 1
Publisher: Orient Longman
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Hyderabad, India
Language: eng
Number of pages: 408
Subjects: Medicine -- India.; Public health -- India.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 383-385) and index.
Table of contents: title: Medicine and orientalism: perspectives on Europe's encounter with Indian medical systems / Mark Harrison; title: "Clinical Christianity": the emergence of medical work as a missionary strategy in colonial India, 1800-1914 / Rosemary Fitzgerald; title: Colonial lunacy policies and the Madras lunatic asylum in the early nineteen century / Waltraud Ernst; title: Indians into asylums: community use of the colonial medical institution in British India, 1857-1880 / James Mills; title: Medical developments and patient unrest in the leprosy asylum, 1860 to 1940 / Sanjiv Kumar; title: Re-devising jennerian vaccines?: European technologies, Indian innovation, and the control of smallpox in South Asia, 1850-1950 / Sanjoy Bhattacharya; title: "Ordering" "Disorder" in a holy city: colonial health interventions in Puri during the nineteenth century / Biswamoy Pati; title: "The Palkhi as plague carrier": the Pandharpur fair and the sanitary fixation of the colonial state; British India, 1908-1916 / Manjiri Kamat; title: Politics, culture, and colonialism: Unani's debate with doctory / Neshat Quaiser; title: The Indian drug industry under the raj, 1860-1920 / Anil Kumar.