Locating the medical : explorations in South Asian history /
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Edition: | First edition. |
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Imprint: | New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2019. |
Description: | 1 online resource. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Oxford scholarship online Oxford scholarship online. |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12684982 |
Other authors / contributors: | Deb Roy, Rohan, editor. Attewell, Guy N. A., editor. |
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ISBN: | 9780199092093 (ebook) : No price |
Notes: | This edition previously issued in print: 2018. Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on January 22, 2019). |
Summary: | This volume interrogates the foundational categories that have come to define medical science in modern South Asia. Through case studies ranging from nineteenth- to twenty first-centuries, it addresses the following questions: How and in what conditions does an event, a substance, an actor, an institution or a particular situation of the body-mind become or cease to be considered `medical' and according to whom? How did contingent political histories engender the medical? How does the medical, in turn, reshape and sustain political categories? Is the medical necessarily a stable, coherent and continuous category? In what ways are the rigid boundaries between the medical and the nonmedical blurred? |
Target Audience: | Specialized. |
Other form: | Print version : 9780199486717 |
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