Vernacular Medicine in Colonial India - Family, Market and Homoeopathy

Interrelated histories of colonial medicine, market and family reveal how Western homeopathy was translated and made vernacular in colonial India.

List of contents

Introduction: 'A growing scandal under British rule': families, market and the vernacular; 1. A heterodoxy between institutions: bureaucracy, print-market and family firms; 2. A family of biographies: colonial lives of a Western heterodoxy; 3. A science in translation: medicine, language, identity; 4. Healing the home: indigeneity, self-help and the Hindu joint family; 5. Colonial law, electoral politics and a homeopathic public; Epilogue: a familiar science.

About the author

Shinjini Das is a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow at the Faculty of History, University of Oxford. She received her Ph.D. from University College London and has previously held a postdoctoral fellowship funded by the European Research Council at the University of Cambridge.

Summary

Combining insights from the history of colonial medicine and the cultural histories of family in British India, Shinjini Das examines the processes through which Western homeopathy was re-interpreted in the colony as a specific Hindu worldview, an economic vision and a disciplining regimen.

Product details

• Authors: Shinjini Das, Shinjini (University of Oxford) Das, DAS SHINJINI
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2019
• EAN: 9781108420624
• ISBN: 978-1-108-42062-4
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Holistic medicine; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; MEDICAL / History, India, History of Medicine, Asian History, Homoeopathy