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The Social History of Health and Medicine in Colonial India
Biswamoy Pati,Mark Harrison +1 more
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This chapter discusses British-Indian Sanitary Strategies in Central Asia, 1897-1907 and racial Pathologies in British India, 1770-1850, as well as medical and Colonial Power in Nineteenth Century Bengal.Abstract:
1. Ranald Martin's Medical Topography [1837]: The Emergence of Public Health in Calcutta Partho Datta 2. The Haj Pilgrimage and Issues of Health Saurabh Mishra 3. Subordinate Negotiations: The Indigenous Staff, Colonial State and Public Health Amna Khalid 4. Plague, Quarantine and Empire: British-Indian Sanitary Strategies in Central Asia, 1897-1907 Sanchari Dutta 5. Medical Research and Control of Disease: Kala-azar in British India Achintya Kumar Dutta 6. The Leprosy Patient and Society: Colonial Orissa, 1870s-1940s Chandi P. Nanda and Biswamoy Pati 7. Medical and Colonial Power: The Case of the Mentally Ill in Nineteenth Century Bengal Waltraud Ernst 8. Prejudices Clung to by the Natives: Ethnicity in the Indian Army and Hospitals for Sepoys, c.1870s-90s Samiksha Sehrawat 9. Racial Pathologies: Morbid Anatomy in British India, 1770-1850 Mark Harrison 10. Pharmacology, Indigenous Knowledge, Nationalism: Few Words from the Epitaph of Subaltern Science Projit B. Mukharji 11. Creating a Medical Consumer: An Analytical Study of Advertisements Madhuri Sharma 12. Opium as a Household Remedy in Nineteenth Century Western India? Amar Farooquiread more
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The Disappearance of the Sick-Man from Medical Cosmology, 1770-1870:
TL;DR: The sick-man may be said to have disappeared from medical cosmology in two related senses during the period 1770-1870 as control over the means of production of medical knowledge shifted away from the sick towards medical investigators.