The Medico-chirurgical Review and Journal of Medical Science
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Published: 1838
Total Pages: 692
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Colonizing the Body
Author: David Arnold
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1993-08-12
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9780520082953
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this innovative analysis of medicine and disease in colonial India, David Arnold explores the vital role of the state in medical and public health activities, arguing that Western medicine became a critical battleground between the colonized and the colonizers. Focusing on three major epidemic diseases—smallpox, cholera, and plague—Arnold analyzes the impact of medical interventionism. He demonstrates that Western medicine as practiced in India was not simply transferred from West to East, but was also fashioned in response to local needs and Indian conditions. By emphasizing this colonial dimension of medicine, Arnold highlights the centrality of the body to political authority in British India and shows how medicine both influenced and articulated the intrinsic contradictions of colonial rule.
Britain in India, 1765-1905, Volume VI
Author: John Marriott
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-05
Total Pages: 510
ISBN-13: 1351573195
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSeeks to explore the nature of the relationship between Britain and India at the height of imperial expansion. This collection is of interest among academic communities exploring British and Indian history. It is useful for literary, cultural and urban historians working in this area.
The Medico-chirurgical Review, and Journal of Practical Medicine
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Published: 1838
Total Pages: 776
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Social History of Health and Medicine in Colonial India
Author: Biswamoy Pati
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008-11-19
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1134042604
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book analyzes 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 inter-disciplinary 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.
A Classified List of Reports and Other Publications in the Record Branch of the India Office, April 1883
Author: India Office Records
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Published: 1883
Total Pages: 220
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Empire of Climate
Author: David N. Livingstone
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2024-04-16
Total Pages: 552
ISBN-13: 0691236704
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow the specter of climate has been used to explain history since antiquity Scientists, journalists, and politicians increasingly tell us that human impacts on climate constitute the single greatest threat facing our planet and may even bring about the extinction of our species. Yet behind these anxieties lies an older, much deeper fear about the power that climate exerts over us. The Empire of Climate traces the history of this idea and its pervasive influence over how we interpret world events and make sense of the human condition, from the rise and fall of ancient civilizations to the afflictions of the modern psyche. Taking readers from the time of Hippocrates to the unfolding crisis of global warming today, David Livingstone reveals how climate has been critically implicated in the politics of imperial control and race relations; been used to explain industrial development, market performance, and economic breakdown; and served as a bellwether for national character and cultural collapse. He examines how climate has been put forward as an explanation for warfare and civil conflict, and how it has been identified as a critical factor in bodily disorders and acute psychosis. A panoramic work of scholarship, The Empire of Climate maps the tangled histories of an idea that has haunted our collective imagination for centuries, shedding critical light on the notion that everything from the wealth of nations to the human mind itself is subject to climate’s imperial rule.
Science, Technology and Medicine in Colonial India
Author: David Arnold
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000-04-20
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780521563192
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInterest in the science, technology and medicine of India under British rule has grown in recent years and has played an ever-increasing part in the reinterpretation of modern South Asian history. Spanning the period from the establishment of East India Company rule through to Independence, David Arnold's wide-ranging and analytical survey demonstrates the importance of examining the role of science, technology and medicine in conjunction with the development of the British engagement in India and in the formation of Indian responses to western intervention. One of the first works to analyse the colonial era as a whole from the perspective of science, the book investigates the relationship between Indian and western science, the nature of science, technology and medicine under the Company, the creation of state-scientific services, 'imperial science' and the rise of an Indian scientific community, the impact of scientific and medical research and the dilemmas of nationalist science.
A Distant Sovereignty
Author: Sudipta Sen
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-04-22
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 113490309X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this broad study of British rule in India during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Sudipta Sen takes up this dual agenda, sketching out the interrelationships between nationalism, imperialism, and identity formation as they played out in both England and South Asia.
Society, Medicine and Politics in Colonial India
Author: Biswamoy Pati
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-02-13
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 1351262181
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
