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Zusatztext 'In its cultural location in the colony, where it was believed that homeopathy was an indigenous 'Hindu' medicine, Shinjini Das' book recounts the fascinating story of the domestication and vernacular lives of this German school of medicine. Blending local histories of medical practice with the social histories of family and family-owned businesses in Calcutta, this book on the Bengali career of homeopathy is one that has been long waiting to be written.' Tapati Guha-Thakurta, Centre for Studies in Social Science, Calcutta Informationen zum Autor 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.
