Medicine and colonialism : historical perspectives in India and South Africa / edited by Poonam Bala
- Bib ID:
- 6485785
- Format:
- Book
- Description:
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- London : Pickering & Chatto, 2014
- ©2014
- xiii, 225 pages ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9781848934658 (hardback)
- 9781781440872 (PDF e-book :)
- Series:
- Empires in perspective ; no. 22.
- Full contents:
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- Machine generated contents note: 1.`Re-Constructing' Indian Medicine: The Role of Caste in Late Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century India / Poonam Bala
- 2.The Resurgence of Indigenous Medicine in the Age of the HIV/AIDS Pandemic: South Africa Beyond the `Miracle'
- Steve Phatlane
- 3.Medicine, Medical Knowledge and Healing at the Cape of Good Hope: Khoikhoi, Slaves and Colonists
- Russel Viljoen
- 4.Dealing with Disease: Epizootics, Veterinarians and Public Health in Colonial Bengal, 1850
- 1920 / Samiparna Samanta
- 5.Mahatma Gandhi under the Plague Spotlight / Howard Phillips
- 6.Plague Hits the Colonies: India and South Africa at the Turn of the Twentieth Century / Natasha Sarkar
- 7.The Blind Men and the Elephant: Imperial Medicine, Medieval Historians and the Role of Rats in the Historiography of Plague / Katherine Royer
- 8.Physicians, Forceps and Childbirth: Technological Intervention in Reproductive Health in Colonial Bengal / Arabinda Samanta
- Contents note continued: 9.Not Fit for Punishment: Diagnosing Criminal Lunatics in Late Nineteenth-Century British India / Jonathan Saha
- 10.Multiple Voices and Plausible Claims: Historiography and Colonial Lunatic Asylum Archives / Sally Swartz
- 11.Death and Empire: Legal Medicine in the Colonization of India and Africa / Jeffrey M. Jentzen.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
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- Medical care -- India -- History -- 19th century
- Medical care -- India -- History -- 20th century
- Medical care -- South Africa -- History -- 19th century
- Medical care -- South Africa -- History -- 20th century
- Medical care -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 19th century
- Medical care -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 20th century
- Traditional medicine -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 19th century
- Traditional medicine -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 20th century
- Traditional medicine -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- 19th century
- Traditional medicine -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- 20th century
- Other authors/contributors:
- Bala, Poonam, 1958-, editor of compilation
- Copyright:
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