The social history of health and medicine in colonial India
By: [edited by] Biswamoy Pati and Mark Harrison.
Contributors: Pati, Biswamoy.; Harrison, Mark, 1964-
Series: Routledge studies in South Asian history -- 1
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Abingdon, Oxon; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415462310
Subjects: Medicine -- India -- History; Public health -- India -- History; Social medicine -- India -- History; Public Health -- history -- India; Colonialism -- history -- India; Ethnic Groups -- history -- India; History, 19th Century -- India; History, 20th Century -- India; Social Environment -- India
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Ranald Martin's medical topography (1837) : the emergence of public health in Calcutta / Partho Datta; title: The Haj pilgrimage and issues of health / Saurabh Mishra; title: Subordinate negotiations : the indigenous staff, colonial state, and public health / Amna Khalid; title: Plague, quarantine, and empire : British-Indian sanitary strategies in Central Asia, 1897-1907 / Sanchari Dutta; title: Medical research and control of disease : Kala-azar in British India / Achintya Kumar Dutta; title: The leprosy patient and society : colonial Orissa, 1870s-1940s / Chandi P. Nanda and Biswamoy Pati; title: Medical and colonial power : the case of the mentally ill in nineteenth century Bengal / Waltraud Ernst; title: Prejudices clung to by the natives : ethnicity in the Indian army and hospitals for Sepoys, c. 1870s-90s / Samiksha Sehrawat; title: Racial pathologies : morbid anatomy in British India, 1770-1850 / Mark Harrison; title: Pharmacology, indigenous knowledge, nationalism : few words from the epitaph of subaltern science / Projit B. Mukharji; title: Creating a medical consumer : an analytical study of advertisements / Madhuri Sharma; title: Opium as a household remedy in nineteenth century Western India / Amar Farooqui.