Locating the Medical

Explorations in South Asian History
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-0-19-948671-7
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 221 mm, Gewicht: 658 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Roy, Rohan Deb

Attewell, Guy N a

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction: Locating the Medical

- I. Production of the Medical

- 1: Durba Mitra: Sociological Description and the Forensics of Sexuality

- 2: Chandak Sengoopta: Treacherous Minds, Submissive Bodies: Corporeal Technologies and Human Experimentation in Colonial India

- 3: Sudipta Sen: Confessions of the Unfriendly Spleen: Medicine, Violence, and That Mysterious Organ of Colonial India

- II. Enactments of the Medical

- 4: Jonathan Saha: State Medicine or Medical State? A Prison Epidemic in Colonial Burma, 1881

- 5: Vishvajit Pandya and Madhumita Mazumdar: "Dr. Kar, I presume!": 'Medical' Narratives from the Jarawa Tribal Reserve

- III. Rethinking Disconnections and Continuities

- 6: Clare Anderson: The Making of an Eclectic Archive: Epistemologies of Global Knowledge in the Papers of J.P. Walker (1823-1906)

- 7: Calum Blaikie: Absence, Abundance, and Excess: Substances and Sowa Rigpa in Ladakh since the 1960s

- 8: James H. Mills: Colonizing Cannabis: Medication, Taxation, Intoxication, and Oblivion, c. 1839-1955

- IV. Contours of the Medical

- 9: Shubha Ranganathan: Re-thinking the 'Medical' through the Lens of the 'Indigenous': Narratives from Mahanubhav Healing Shrines in Maharashtra, India

- 10: Projit Bihari Mukharji: Vernacularizing Political Medicine: Locating the Medical betwixt the Literal and the Literary in Two Texts on the Burdwan Fever, Bengal c. 1870s

- 11: David Arnold: Technology and Health in Late Colonial India

- Afterword: Making 'the Medical'

- Notes on Editors and Contributors

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Rohan Deb Roy is Lecturer in South Asian History at the University of Reading. He received his PhD from University College London, UK. He is the author of Malarial Subjects: Empire, Medicine and Non-humans in British India, 1820-1909.

Guy N.A. Attewell is an independent researcher, and divides his time between Tamil Nadu, India, and the UK. He was formerly a Researcher in the Department of Social Sciences at the French Institute of Pondicherry, India, and taught in University College London, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, UK.