Locating the medical : explorations in South Asian history /

Locating the medical : explorations in South Asian history /

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Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	New Delhi, India : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Description:	vi, 307 pages ; 22 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Medical sciences -- South Asia -- History -- 19th century. Medical sciences -- South Asia -- History -- 20th century. Medical sciences -- India -- History -- 19th century. Medical sciences -- India -- History -- 20th century. Medicine -- History. Historiography. History of Medicine Colonialism -- history Attitude of Health Personnel Historiography History, 19th Century History, 20th Century History, 21st Century Medical sciences. Asia India. South Asia. History.
Format:	E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12746094

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Other authors / contributors:	Deb Roy, Rohan, editor. Attewell, Guy N. A., editor.
ISBN:	9780199486717 0199486719 9780199480197 0199480192
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	This volume interrogates the foundational categories that have come to define medical science in modern South Asia. It seeks to probe issues such as what constitutes the 'medical', in which context, and who defines it. This is achieved through case studies that range from the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries, from colonial Bengal and British Burma to present-day Andaman Islands and Ladakh.

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Summary:	This volume interrogates the foundational categories that have come to define medical science in modern South Asia. It seeks to probe issues such as what constitutes the "medical", in which context, and who defines it. This is achieved through case studies that range from the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries, from colonial Bengal and British Burma to present-day Andaman Islands and Ladakh. By examining the close interactions between political authorities, corporeal knowledge, and objects of governance in a sustained manner, the domains of the medical and the non-medical are revealed to be more blurred and porous than apparent. This provides us with new perspectives on the co-production of medicine and social worlds by actors and agencies in specific times and places.
Physical Description:	vi, 307 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9780199486717 0199486719 9780199480197 0199480192