Contesting colonial authority :
Contesting colonial authority : medicine and indigenous responses in nineteenth- and twentieth-century India /
edited by Poonam Bala
- New Delhi : Primus Books, 2015
- xvii, 158 pages illustration ; 24 cm
Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 "Nationalizing" Medicine; 2 Teaching European Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Goa; 3 Ayurvedic Pharmaceuticals; 4 Corporal Contestations; 5 Colonial Medicine and Elite Nationalist Responses in India; 6 Colonial Compassion and Political Calculation; 7 Educating Lady Doctors in Colonial Burma; 8 Unani Medical Culture; 9 Malarial Fever in Nineteenth-Century Bengal; Index; About the Contributors.
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.
9789384082758
Medicine-- History--India--19th century
Medicine--History-- India-- 20th century
History of Medicine.
610.954 C767
Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 "Nationalizing" Medicine; 2 Teaching European Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Goa; 3 Ayurvedic Pharmaceuticals; 4 Corporal Contestations; 5 Colonial Medicine and Elite Nationalist Responses in India; 6 Colonial Compassion and Political Calculation; 7 Educating Lady Doctors in Colonial Burma; 8 Unani Medical Culture; 9 Malarial Fever in Nineteenth-Century Bengal; Index; About the Contributors.
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.
9789384082758
Medicine-- History--India--19th century
Medicine--History-- India-- 20th century
History of Medicine.
610.954 C767