Society, Medicine and Politics in Colonial India

Summary

This volume examines varied aspects of health and medicine as they relate to the political upheavals of the colonial era — from the micro-politics of medicine in princely states and institutions such as asylums through to the wider canvas of sanitary diplomacy as well as the meaning of modernity and modernisation in the con

Product details

• Authors: Biswamoy (Delhi University Pati, Biswamoy Harrison Pati
• Assisted by: Mark Harrison (Editor), Biswamoy Pati (Editor), Pati Biswamoy (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.12.2020
• EAN: 9780367735258
• ISBN: 978-0-367-73525-8
• No. of pages: 326
• Series: The Social History of Health and Medicine in South Asia
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, HISTORY / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, Social & cultural history, India, Colonialism & imperialism, History of Medicine, Social and cultural history, Colonialism and imperialism, Asian History, Society and culture: general, South Asia (Indian sub-continent), HISTORY / Asia / South / General