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- EDITOR : Biswamoy Pati and Mark Harrison
- HB ISBN : 978-93-80607-12-2
- PB ISBN : 978-93-80607-85-6
- HB Year : 2011, PB Year : 2013
- Extent : xiv + 242 pp.
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The Social History of Health and Medicine in Colonial India
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INFORMATION
- AUTHOR – Biswamoy Pati and Mark Harrison
- ISBN – 978-93-80607-12-2
- Year – 2011
- Extent: 400 + 40 coloured illustrations
- 10% discount + free shipping
- Usually dispatched within 3 to 5 working days.
This volume analyses the diverse facets of the social history of health and medicine in colonial India. It explores a unique set of themes that capture the diversities of India, such as public health, medical institutions, mental illness and the politics and economics of colonialism. Based on interdisciplinary research, the contributions offer valuable insight into topics that have recently received increased scholarly attention, including the use of opiates and the role of advertising in driving medical markets. The contributors, both established and emerging scholars in the field, incorporate sources ranging from palm leaf manuscripts to archival materials. This book will be of interest to scholars of history, especially the history of medicine and the history of colonialism and imperialism, sociology, social anthropology, cultural theory, and South Asian Studies, as well as to health workers and NGOs.
The Editors
Biswamoy Pati is Reader in the Department of History at Sri Venkateswara College, Delhi University, India. His research interests focus on colonial Indian social history and recent publications include an edited book, The Nature of 1857 (2007), and a book co-edited with Waltraud Ernst entitled India’s Princely States: People, Princes and Colonialism (2007, 2010).
Mark Harrison is Professor of the History of Medicine and Director of the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine at Oxford University. His publications include Public Health in British India (1994), Climates and Constitutions (1999) and a co-edited book with BiswamoyPati, Health, Medicine and Empire (2001).
Contributors
Partho Datta l Achintya Kumar Dutta l Sanchari Dutta l Waltraud Ernst l Amar Farooqui l Mark Harrison l Amna Khalid l Saurabh Mishra l Projit Bihari Mukharji l Chandi P Nanda l Biswamoy Pati l Samiksha Sehrawat l Madhuri Sharma
‘The book is a must for students of the history of South Asia, and not just its medical history, since it has a lot about colonial rule in practice.’— MICHAEL MANN, H-Soz-u-Kult
This volume analyses the diverse facets of the social history of health and medicine in colonial India. It explores a unique set of themes that capture the diversities of India, such as public health, medical institutions, mental illness and the politics and economics of colonialism. Based on interdisciplinary research, the contributions offer valuable insight into topics that have recently received increased scholarly attention, including the use of opiates and the role of advertising in driving medical markets. The contributors, both established and emerging scholars in the field, incorporate sources ranging from palm leaf manuscripts to archival materials. This book will be of interest to scholars of history, especially the history of medicine and the history of colonialism and imperialism, sociology, social anthropology, cultural theory, and South Asian Studies, as well as to health workers and NGOs.
The Editors
Biswamoy Pati is Reader in the Department of History at Sri Venkateswara College, Delhi University, India. His research interests focus on colonial Indian social history and recent publications include an edited book, The Nature of 1857 (2007), and a book co-edited with Waltraud Ernst entitled India’s Princely States: People, Princes and Colonialism (2007, 2010).
Mark Harrison is Professor of the History of Medicine and Director of the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine at Oxford University. His publications include Public Health in British India (1994), Climates and Constitutions (1999) and a co-edited book with BiswamoyPati, Health, Medicine and Empire (2001).
Contributors
Partho Datta l Achintya Kumar Dutta l Sanchari Dutta l Waltraud Ernst l Amar Farooqui l Mark Harrison l Amna Khalid l Saurabh Mishra l Projit Bihari Mukharji l Chandi P Nanda l Biswamoy Pati l Samiksha Sehrawat l Madhuri Sharma
‘The book is a must for students of the history of South Asia, and not just its medical history, since it has a lot about colonial rule in practice.’— MICHAEL MANN, H-Soz-u-Kult
