Probing History of Medicine and Public Health in India

Datos Bibliográficos

ID20179622
AutoresDeepak Kumar (0000-0003-0234-3165, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, autor de correspondencia)
Año2010
Volumen37
Número2
Páginas259-273
Fecha de publicación2010-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaIndian Historical Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0376-9836 • E-ISSN: 0975-5977
EditorialSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/037698361003700204
OpenAlexW2149346318
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6
Referencias citadas11

The article deals with the processes and problems related to cultural encounters as reflected in the transmission of medical ideas and practices in colonial India. Precolonial experiences serve as background. Transmission was a complex process; it was never linear. One has to look at it from different angles; individuals, professional societies, institutions and of course the government policies played important and varied roles. They also differed according to time and locale. Probably they were multi-sited and this is the central argument of the article. Examples are drawn from the writings of contemporary medical men, journals, government documents and private papers, and taken together they shed some light on the contours of the interaction and the medical encounter which took place in the nineteenth and early twentieth century India

Colonialism · Political science · Social science · Sociology · African cultural and philosophical studies · History · Law · Medicine · Philosophy