Locating the medical : explorations in South Asian history /

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Bibliographic Details
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:	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.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Locating the Medical
I. Production of the Medical
1. Sociological Description and the Forensics of Sexuality
2. Treacherous Minds, Submissive Bodies: Corporeal Technologies and Human Experimentation in Colonial India
3. Confessions of the Unfriendly Spleen: Medicine, Violence, and That Mysterious Organ of Colonial India
II. Enactments of the Medical
4. State Medicine or Medical State? A Prison Epidemic in Colonial Burma, 1881
5. 'Dr. Kar I Presumel': 'Medical' Narratives from the Jarawa Tribal Reserve
III. Rethinking Disconnections and Continuities
6. The Making of an Eclectic Archive: Epistemologies of Global Knowledge in the Papers of J.P. Walker (1823-1906)
7. Absence, Abundance, and Excess: Substances and Sowa Rigpa in Ladakh since the 1960s
8. Colonizing Cannabis: Medication, Taxation, Intoxication, and Oblivion, c. 1839-1955
IV. Contours of the Medical
9. Re-thinking the 'Medical' through the Lens of the 'Indigenous': Narratives from Mahanubhav Healing Shrines in Maharashtra, India
10. Vernacularizing Political Medicine: Locating the Medical betwixt the Literal and the Literary in Two Texts on the Burdwan Fever, Bengal c. 1870s
11. Technology and Health in Late Colonial Indi3
Afterword: Making 'the Medical'
Notes on Editors and Contributors
Index

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