Probing History of Medicine and Public Health in India

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ID20179622
AutoresDeepak Kumar (0000-0003-0234-3165, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, autor correspondente)
Ano2010
Volume37
Fascículo2
Páginas259-273
Data de publicação2010-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoIndian Historical Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0376-9836 • E-ISSN: 0975-5977
EditoraSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/037698361003700204
OpenAlexW2149346318
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas6
Referências 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