Western Medicine And Colonial Society

Author : Srilata Chatterjee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789384092986
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Western Medicine and Colonial Society written by Srilata Chatterjee and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past few decades, academic research on the medical history of colonial India has concentrated mostly on the public health policy of the colonial government and the ingenious contrivance between colonial power and medicine in the formation of an empire, while neglecting the history of hospitals in the colonies. The present work attempts to bridge this gap by tracing the trajectories of hospital formation for the indigenous population, beginning with the early military and European hospitals. The book also focuses on the growth of dispensaries in the suburbs of Calcutta, as well as speciality hospitals in the city.

Author : Roy Macleod
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000566153
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Disease, Medicine and Empire written by Roy Macleod and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-05-24 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1988, the essays in this book focus primarily on colonial medicine in the British Empire but comparative material on the experience of France and Germany is also included. The authors show how medicine served as an instrument of empire, as well as constituting an imperializing cultural force in itself, reflecting in different contexts, the objectives of European expansion – whether to conquer, to occupy or to settle. With chapters from a distinguished array of social and medical historians, colonial medicine is examined in its topical, regional and professional diversity. Ranging from tropical to temperate regions, from 18th Century colonial America to 20th Century South Africa, this book is an important contribution to our understanding of the influence of European medicine on imperial history.

Author : Srilata Chatterjee
Publisher : Ratna Sagar
ISBN 13 : 9789386552143
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Western Medicine and Colonial Society written by Srilata Chatterjee and published by Ratna Sagar. This book was released on 2017-05 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Western Medicine and Colonial Society studies the social and political environment that spurred the development of hospitals and asylums in Calcutta under the East India Company's rule from c.1757 to 1860. Over the past few decades, academic research on the medical history of colonial India has concentrated mostly on the public health policy of the colonial government and the ingenious contrivance between colonial power and medicine in the formation of an empire, while neglecting the history of hospitals in the colonies. The present work attempts to bridge this gap by tracing the trajectories of hospital formation for the indigenous population, beginning with the early military and European hospitals. The book also focuses on the growth of dispensaries in the suburbs of Calcutta, as well as speciality hospitals in the city. Based on a thorough examination of the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century records preserved in India and the UK, this volume attempts to link the urban development of Calcutta, as the second capital of the Empire, with the social, political and cultural forces that fashioned the process of institutional health care in the city, and which became an important legacy for the organization of health care after India's Independence.

Author : Biswamoy Pati
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351262181
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Society, Medicine and Politics in Colonial India written by Biswamoy Pati and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of medicine and disease in colonial India remains a dynamic and innovative field of research, covering many facets of health, from government policy to local therapeutics. This volume presents a selection of essays examining varied aspects of health and medicine as they relate to the political upheavals of the colonial era. These range from the micro-politics of medicine in princely states and institutions such as asylums through to the wider canvas of sanitary diplomacy as well as the meaning of modernity and modernization in the context of British rule. The volume reflects the diversity of the field and showcases exciting new scholarship from early-career researchers as well as more established scholars by bringing to light many locations and dimensions of medicine and modernity. The essays have several common themes and together offer important insights into South Asia’s experience of modernity in the years before independence. Cutting across modernity and colonialism, some of the key themes explored here include issues of race, gender, sexuality, law, mental health, famine, disease, religion, missionary medicine, medical research, tensions between and within different medical traditions and practices and India’s place in an international context. This book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of modern South Asian history, sociology, politics and anthropology as well as specialists in the history of medicine.

Author : Philip Cash
Publisher : Colonial Society of
ISBN 13 : 9780813909080
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medicine in Colonial Massachusetts, 1620-1820 written by Philip Cash and published by Colonial Society of. This book was released on 1981-03-29 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sujata Mukherjee
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780199468225
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender, Medicine, and Society in Colonial India written by Sujata Mukherjee and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the interface between medicine and colonial society through the lens of gender. The work traces the growth of hospital medicine in nineteenth century Bengal and shows how it created a space-albeit small-for providing western health care to female patients. It observes that, unlike in the colonial setup, before the advent of hospital medicine women were treated mostly by female practitioners of indigenous therapies who had commendable skill as practitioners. The book also explores the linkages of growth of medical education for women and the role of the Brahmo Samaj in this process. The manuscript tackles several crucial questions including those of racial discrimination, reproductive health practices, sexual health, famines and mortality, and the role of women's agencies and other organizations in popularizing western medicine and healthcare.

Author : Richard Harrison Shryock
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781258809089
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medicine and Society in America, 1660-1860 written by Richard Harrison Shryock and published by . This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Anna Greenwood
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1784996165
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond the state written by Anna Greenwood and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. The Colonial Medical Service was the personnel section of the Colonial Service, employing the doctors who tended to the health of both the colonial staff and the local populations of the British Empire. Although the Service represented the pinnacle of an elite government agency, its reach in practice stretched far beyond the state, with the members of the African service collaborating, formally and informally, with a range of other non-governmental groups. This collection of essays on the Colonial Medical Service of Africa illustrates the diversity and active collaborations to be found in the untidy reality of government medical provision. The authors present important case studies covering former British colonial dependencies in Africa, including Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda and Zanzibar. They reveal many new insights into the enactments of colonial policy and the ways in which colonial doctors negotiated the day-to-day reality during the height of imperial rule in Africa. The book provides essential reading for scholars and students of colonial history, medical history and colonial administration.

Author : Madhuri Sharma
Publisher : Cambridge India
ISBN 13 : 8175968893
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indigenous and Western Medicine in Colonial India written by Madhuri Sharma and published by Cambridge India. This book was released on 2012 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book delves into the social history of medicine and reflects on the complexity of social interaction between indigenous and western medicine in colonial India. The book draws upon a host of authentic sources such as tracts, pamphlets, brochures, booklets of various medicine shops and drug manufacturing companies functioning in the colonial era. This work analyses the medical market and entrepreneurship in medicine in colonial India. It deconstructs the then prevalent 'advertisements', treating them both as a reflection on the contemporaneous values and lifestyles and as a medium for the creation of medical consumers. Emphasizing upon the question of class, gender and racial discriminations, the book also examines the interest generated by modern medical equipment such as the stethoscope and the thermometer, and the way in which these were used to reinforce the norms of social hierarchy and the purdah system. This work also focuses on several debated issues such as birth control, sexuality, and the principles of brahmacharya. The book would be a useful read for sociology and history graduates, as well as researchers and medical professionals.

Author : Mridula Ramanna
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Western Medicine and Public Health in Colonial Bombay, 1845-1895 written by Mridula Ramanna and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: