Contesting colonial authority : medicine and Indigenous responses in nineteenth- and twentieth-century India /

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 ne...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bala, Poonam
Otros Autores: Bala, Poonam, 1958-, Banerjee, Madhulika, Bastos, Cristiana, Chaudhary, Shrimoy Roy, Khan, Shamshad, Lang, Sean, Naono, Atsuko, Quaiser, Neshat, Samanta, Arabinda
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, ©2012.
Temas:
1800-1999
Medicine > India > History > 19th century.
Medicine > India > History > 20th century.
Medicine > History.
Culture.
History of Medicine
Culture
Government
History, 19th Century
History, 20th Century
Médecine > Inde > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Médecine > Inde > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Médecine > Histoire.
Institutions politiques.
Médecine > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Médecine > Histoire > 20e siècle.
history of medicine.
culture note.
governments (administrative bodies)
culture (concept)
MEDICAL > History.
Medicine
India
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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