Medicine and colonialism : historical perspectives in India and South Africa

Author(s)

• Bala, Poonam

Bibliographic Information

Medicine and colonialism : historical perspectives in India and South Africa

edited by Poonam Bala

（Empires in perspective, no. 22）

Pickering & Chatto, 2014

Note

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Focusing on India and South Africa during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the essays in this collection address power and enforced modernity as applied to medicine. Clashes between traditional methods of healing and the practices brought in by colonizers are explored across both territories.

Table of Contents

• Introduction, Poonam Bala
• Chapter 1 'Re-Constructing' Indian Medicine: The Role of Caste in Late Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century India, Poonam Bala
• Chapter 2 The Resurgence of Indigenous Medicine in the Age of the HIV/AIDS Pandemic: South Africa Beyond the 'Miracle', Steve Phatlane
• Chapter 3 Medicine, Medical Knowledge and Healing at the Cape of Good Hope: Khoikhoi, Slaves and Colonists, Russel Viljoen
• Chapter 4 Dealing with Disease: Epizootics, Veterinarians and Public Health in Colonial Bengal, 1850-1920, Samiparna Samanta
• Chapter 5 Mahatma Gandhi Under the Plague Spotlight, Howard Phillips
• Chapter 6 Plague Hits the Colonies: India and South Africa at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, Natasha Sarkar
• Chapter 7 The Blind Men and the Elephant: Imperial Medicine, Medieval Historians and the Role of Rates in the Historiography of Plague, Katherine Royer
• Chapter 8 Physicians, Forceps and Childbirth: Technological Intervention in Reproductive Health in Colonial Bengal, Arabinda Samanta
• Chapter 9 Not Fit for Punishment: Diagnosing Criminal Lunatics in Late Nineteenth-Century British India, Jonathan Saha
• Chapter 10 Multiple Voices and Plausible Claims: Historiography and Colonial Lunatic Asylum Archives, Sally Swartz
• Chapter 11 Death and Empire: Legal Medicine in the Colonization of India and Africa, Jeffrey M. Jentzen

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Details

• NCID: BB15826231
• ISBN:
  • 9781848934658
• LCCN: 2013444870
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: xiii, 225 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • DC23 : 362.1/091712/41
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Medical care -- India -- History -- 19th century
  • LCSH : Medical care -- India -- History -- 20th century
  • LCSH : Medical care -- South Africa -- History -- 19th century
  • LCSH : Medical care -- South Africa -- History -- 20th century
  • LCSH : Medical care -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 19th century
  • LCSH : Medical care -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 20th century
  • LCSH : Traditional medicine -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 19th century
  • LCSH : Traditional medicine -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 20th century
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA82764055