Locating the Medical
Subtitle: Explorations in South Asian History
Publisher: Oxford University Press India
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780199486717
Subjects: Medicine, asia
Description: This volume interrogates the foundational categories that have come to define medical science in modern South Asia. It seeks to probe issues such as what constitutes the 'medical', in which context, and who defines it. This is achieved through case studies that range from the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries, from colonial Bengal and British Burma to present-day Andaman Islands and Ladakh.