Contesting Colonial Authority - Medicine Indigenous Responses in Nineteenth Twentieth century India

Informationen zum Autor Poonam Bala is currently visiting scholar in the Department of Sociology at Cleveland State University, Ohio. Klappentext Poonam Bala's Contesting Colonial Authority explores the interplay of conformity and defiance amongst the plural medical tradition in colonial India. The contributors reveal how Indian elites, nationalists, and the rest of the Indian population participated in the move to revisit and frame a new social character of Indian Medicine. Zusammenfassung Poonam Bala’s Contesting Colonial Authority explores the interplay of conformity and defiance amongst the plural medical tradition in colonial India. The contributors reveal how Indian elites, nationalists, and the rest of the Indian population participated in the move to revisit and frame a new social character of Indian Medicine. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. 'Nationalizing' Medicine by Poonam Bala2. Teaching European Medicine in Colonial Goa by Cristiana Bastos3. Ayurvedic Pharmaceuticals by Madhulika Banerjee4. Corporal Contestations by Shrimoy Roy Chaudhary5. Colonial Medicine and Elite Nationalist Responses in India by Shamshad Khan6. Colonial Compassion and Political Calculation by Sean Lang7. Educating Lady Doctors in Colonial Burma by Atsuko Naono8. Unani Medical Culture by Neshat Quaiser9. Malarial Fever in Nineteenth-Century Bengal by Arabinda SamantaIndexAbout the Contributors

Product details

• Authors: bala, Poonam (EDT)/ Bastos Bala
• Assisted by: Poonam Bala (Editor), Bala Poonam (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.04.2012
• EAN: 9780739170236
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-7023-6
• No. of pages: 182
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; 20th Century, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, MEDICAL / History, India, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, History of Medicine, Asian History, HISTORY / Asia / South / India