Medicine and Colonialism : Historical Perspectives in India and South Africa
Medicine and Colonialism : Historical Perspectives in India and South Africa
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Author(s): Bala, Poonam
ISBN No.: 9781848934658
Pages: 240
Year: 201401
Format: Trade Cloth (Hard Cover)
Price: $ 169.34
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available

Introduction, Poonam Bala; Chapter 1 'Re-Constructing' Indian Medicine: The Role of Caste in Late Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century India, Poonam Bala; Chapter 2 The Resurgence of Indigenous Medicine in the Age of the HIV/AIDS Pandemic: South Africa Beyond the 'Miracle', Steve Phatlane; Chapter 3 Medicine, Medical Knowledge and Healing at the Cape of Good Hope: Khoikhoi, Slaves and Colonists, Russel Viljoen; Chapter 4 Dealing with Disease: Epizootics, Veterinarians and Public Health in Colonial Bengal, 1850-1920, Samiparna Samanta; Chapter 5 Mahatma Gandhi Under the Plague Spotlight, Howard Phillips; Chapter 6 Plague Hits the Colonies: India and South Africa at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, Natasha Sarkar; Chapter 7 The Blind Men and the Elephant: Imperial Medicine, Medieval Historians and the Role of Rates in the Historiography of Plague, Katherine Royer; Chapter 8 Physicians, Forceps and Childbirth: Technological Intervention in Reproductive Health in Colonial Bengal, Arabinda Samanta; Chapter 9 Not Fit for Punishment: Diagnosing Criminal Lunatics in Late Nineteenth-Century British India, Jonathan Saha; Chapter 10 Multiple Voices and Plausible Claims: Historiography and Colonial Lunatic Asylum Archives, Sally Swartz; Chapter 11 Death and Empire: Legal Medicine in the Colonization of India and Africa, Jeffrey M. Jentzen;.


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