The emergence of global history has been one of the more notable features of academic history over the past three decades. Although historians of disease were among the pioneers of one of its earlier incarnations—world history—the recent “global turn” has made relatively little impact on histories of health, disease, and medicine. Most continue to be framed by familiar entities such as the colony or nation-state or are confined to particular medical “traditions.” This article aims to show what can be gained from taking a broader perspective. Its purpose is not to replace other ways of seeing or to write a new “grand narrative” but to show how transnational and transimperial approaches are vital to understanding some of the key issues with which historians of health, disease, and medicine are concerned. Moving on from an analysis of earlier periods of integration, the article offers some reflections on our own era of globalization and on the emerging field of global health.

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A Global Perspective: Reframing the History of Health, Medicine, and Disease.

The affective labor of growing forests and the becoming of environmental subjects: Rethinking environmentality in Odisha, India

Drawing on approaches to class emphasising the multiplicity of labour relations at work under capitalism, and from feminist insights on oppression and social reproduction, this paper illustrates the interconnection between processes of class formation and patriarchal norms in globalised production circuits. The analysis emphasises the nexus between the commodification and exploitation of women’s labour, and how it structures gendered wage differentials, labour control and the high ‘disposability’ of women’s work. The analysis develops these arguments by exploring the case of the Indian garment industry and its gendered sweatshop regime. It illustrates how commodification and exploitation interplay in factory and home-based realms, and discusses how an approach on class premised on social reproduction changes the social perimeters of what we understand as labour ‘unfreedom’ and labour struggles.

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Class, gender and the sweatshop: on the nexus between labour commodification and exploitation

Systems of medicine and nationalist discourse in India: towards "new horizons" in medical anthropology and history.

The inequalities of medical pluralism: Hierarchies of health, the politics of tradition and the economies of care in Indian oncology

Situating Social History: Orissa 1800-1977

Social history of health and medicine

This chapter discusses the origin and military context of the Imperial Service Troops (IST). It focuses on two episodes in the evolution of princely-British military collaboration in the early twentieth century: Curzon's attempt ot expand the IST in 1903 and the 1919-20 initiative to reorganise the IST.

Biswamoy Pati

Papers

Situating Social History: Orissa 1800-1977

Social history of health and medicine

‘Hostages in our camp’: military collaboration between princely India and the British Raj, c.1880–1920 SA MIKSH A SEHR AWAT

Subaltern Studies III & IV: A Review Article

Invoking Ambedkar : contributions, receptions, legacies